Jim Meadlock, an engineer who worked on the Apollo missions, bought a mansion in Jupiter’s Bear’s Club for $19 million in an off-market deal.
Records show Meadlock bought the house at 146 Bear’s Club Drive from Alain Bedard and Johanne Dean, executives with the Canadian trucking company TFI International.
Mark Griffin with Bear’s Club Sotheby’s International Realty represented the sellers, and Vince Marotta with Illustrated Properties brought the buyer. Marotta declined to comment on the deal and the identity of the buyer.
Meadlock was an engineer with IBM and worked on the Apollo space program for 12 years, according to published reports. After leaving Armonk, New York-based IBM, he founded the firm now known as Intergraph, one of the earliest CAD software companies. In 2010, it sold to Stockholm, Sweden-based Hexagon AB for $2.1 billion, according to a press release.
Bedard is the president and CEO of TFI, and Dean is vice president of marketing and communications for TFI. They bought the 1.6-acre Bear’s Club estate for $4.6 million in 2012, according to property records.
The 10,400-square-foot mansion was built in 2001 by Vincent Marotta Sr., the late creator of the Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker, records show. The house has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a theater and a pool, according to previous listings.
Bedard and Dean listed it for $24.8 million in February, and pulled it from the market in June.
The Bear’s Club is one of South Florida’s premier gated golf communities, known for large estates and high-profile residents like Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy. In February, former Patrón Spirits CEO Edward Brown sold his Bear’s Club mansion for a record $48 million to Frank and Dolores Mennella. In December, music producer Matthew Resnicoff sold his mansion for $15.3 million. Also last year, investor and metals executive Daniel Rifkin dropped $17.7 million on a home.
