Jim Meadlock, an engineer who worked on the Apollo space missions, bought a second mansion in Jupiter’s Bear’s Club for $34.3 million.
Records show the trust of his wife, Cynthia Meadlock, bought the mansion at 118 Bear’s Club Drive from Brighton Investment SA, a Panamanian entity linked to Colombian billionaire Jimmy Mayer.
Vince Marotta with Illustrated Properties brought the buyers. He declined to comment. Mark Griffin with Bear’s Club Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing.
Jim Meadlock was an IBM engineer and worked on the Apollo space program for 12 years, published reports show. He went on to found M&S Computing, the firm now known as Intergraph, one of the earliest CAD software companies. It sold to Stockholm-based Hexagon AB in 2010 for $2.1 billion, according to a news release.
He and his wife bought the house at 146 Bear’s Club Drive for $19 million in an off-market deal in November. They listed it with Marotta for $26.5 million in December, Zillow shows.
They also own the full-floor penthouse at Passages of Jupiter Island at 19750 Beach Road, which they bought for $600,000 in 1986. They listed it for $11 million earlier this month with Jeremy Browne and Thomas Hughes of Compass.
Jimmy Mayer heads Inversiones Sanford, a manufacturing conglomerate based in Colombia, according to published reports. He bought the 2.9-acre property at 118 Bear’s Club Drive for $900,000 in 2000, property records show. He built the 23,000-square-foot mansion in 2010. It spans seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, according to records. The compound includes a two-bedroom, two-bathroom guest house, a pool, a gym and a safe room, the listing shows.
It has been on-and-off the market since 2021, when it was listed for $30 million, and the price rose to $44 million in November, Zillow shows.
The sale marks the latest expensive deal in the Bear’s Club, which has emerged as one of Palm Beach County’s most coveted gated communities among luxury buyers. It is known for high-profile residents like Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy, as well as its exclusive golf club and Jack Nicklaus-designed course.
Last year, retired Patrón CEO Ed Brown sold his mansion there for a record $48 million.