Jim Meadlock, an engineer known for his work on the Apollo space program, has purchased a second home in Jupiter’s Bear’s Club for $34.3 million. Property records indicate that the mansion at 118 Bear’s Club Drive was acquired by a trust belonging to his wife, Cynthia Meadlock. The seller was Brighton Investment SA, a Panamanian entity connected to Colombian billionaire Jimmy Mayer.
Vince Marotta of Illustrated Properties represented the buyers but declined to comment on the transaction. Mark Griffin with Bear’s Club Sotheby’s International Realty handled the listing.
Meadlock previously worked as an IBM engineer and contributed to the Apollo missions for 12 years before founding M&S Computing, now called Intergraph. Intergraph became one of the early computer-aided design software companies and was sold to Hexagon AB in 2010 for $2.1 billion.
The Meadlocks purchased another property at 146 Bear’s Club Drive last November for $19 million in an off-market deal and listed it for sale at $26.5 million in December. They also own a penthouse at Passages of Jupiter Island, which they bought in 1986 for $600,000 and recently listed for $11 million.
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 a 23,000-square-foot mansion there ten years later. The property features seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a guest house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a pool, gym, and safe room.
The mansion has been listed intermittently since 2021 when it was priced at $30 million; its asking price rose to $44 million last November.
Bear’s Club is recognized as one of Palm Beach County’s most exclusive gated communities and is known for residents such as Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy as well as its golf club designed by Jack Nicklaus. Last year saw another significant sale when retired Patrón CEO Ed Brown sold his estate there for $48 million.
