Jim Medlock, an engineer who worked on the Apollo missions, bought a mansion in Jupiter’s Beer Club for $19 million in an off-market deal.
Records show Medlock bought the house at 146 Beer’s Club Drive from Alain Bedard and John Dean, executives of Canadian trucking company TFI International.
Mark Griffin with Beer’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.
According to published reports, Medlock was an engineer with IBM and worked on the Apollo space program for 12 years. After leaving New York-based IBM, Armonk, he founded the firm now known as Intergraph, one of the earliest CAD software companies. In 2010, it sold Sweden-based Hexagon AB to Stockholm for 12.1 billion, according to a press release.
Bedard is president and CEO of TFI, and Dean is vice president of marketing and communications for TFI. He bought the 1.6-acre Bear’s Club Estate in 2012 for $4.6 million, according to property records.
According to records, the 10,400-square-foot mansion was built in 2001 by Vincent Marotta Sr., the late creator of Mr. Coffee Drip Coffee Maker. According to previous listings, the home has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two half baths, a theater and a pool.
Bedard and Dean listed it for $24.8 million in February, and pulled it off the market in June.
Bear’s Club is one of South Florida’s premier gated golf communities, known for large estates and high-profile residents such as Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy. In February, former Patron Spirits CEO Edward Brown sold his Bear’s Club mansion to Frank and Dolores Manilella for a record $48 million. In December, music producer Matthew Resnikov sold his mansion for $15.3 million. Also last year, investor and metals executive Daniel Rifkin dropped $17.7 million on a home.
