Jim Meadlock, a former IBM engineer who contributed to the Apollo space missions, has purchased a second home in Jupiter’s Bear’s Club for $34.3 million. The purchase was made through a trust belonging to his wife, Cynthia Meadlock. The seller was Brighton Investment SA, a Panamanian entity associated with Colombian billionaire Jimmy Mayer.
Vince Marotta of Illustrated Properties represented the buyers but declined to comment on the transaction. Mark Griffin from Bear’s Club Sotheby’s International Realty held the listing.
Meadlock spent 12 years working on the Apollo program before founding M&S Computing, which later became Intergraph, an early computer-aided design (CAD) software company. Intergraph was sold to Hexagon AB of Sweden in 2010 for $2.1 billion.
In November, Jim and Cynthia Meadlock acquired another property at 146 Bear’s Club Drive for $19 million in an off-market deal and listed it for sale at $26.5 million in December.
The couple also owns a penthouse at Passages of Jupiter Island located at 19750 Beach Road, purchased for $600,000 in 1986. Earlier this month, they listed this property for $11 million with Compass agents Jeremy Browne and Thomas Hughes.
Jimmy Mayer leads Inversiones Sanford, a manufacturing group based in Colombia. He originally bought the 2.9-acre site at 118 Bear’s Club Drive for $900,000 in 2000 and constructed the current mansion in 2010. The main house is about 23,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and eight full bathrooms plus two half-bathrooms. There is also a guest house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms as well as amenities such as a pool, gym and safe room.
The property has been on and off the market since 2021 when it was first listed at $30 million; its price reached up to $44 million last November.
This sale continues a trend of high-value transactions within Bear’s Club—a gated community recognized for attracting luxury buyers including notable residents like Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy due to its exclusive golf club designed by Jack Nicklaus.
Last year saw another significant sale when retired Patrón CEO Ed Brown sold his mansion there for a record-setting $48 million.
