John Henry, Red Sox owner, asks $25M for Boca mansion

He bought the 6.3-acre plot in 1991 for $850,000

Fresh off his squad’s World Series victory, Boston Red Sox owner John Henry is hoping to score a win in the real estate game. His palatial estate in Boca Raton is on the market for a cool $25 million.

Should it sell for even close to that, it’ll be a sizable return on investment for the billionaire. He bought the 6.3-acre plot in 1991 for $850,000 and finished erecting the mansion four years later, according to the listing brokerage.

Named “The House of Peace” for its Japanese influences, the custom mansion sits lakefront in Le Lac — a 200-acre, 32-home community. The home offers seven bedrooms and 14.5 bathrooms across 27,832 square feet.

Clean lines and open spaces make up the interior, which receives light through floorto-ceiling windows and skylights. On the main level, there’s a foyer with a sweeping staircase, a two-story living room and a rounded family room.

Amenities and custom rooms fill out the rest of the floor plan, including a movie theater with a concession stand, a sports bar, a library with cherry wood walls, a gym, a loft with card tables and an underground wine cellar. A recording studio takes in views of the water through picture windows.

In the guest wing, there’s space for hosting and entertaining in the form of a kitchenette, a playroom and a living room with an Olympic-style ping-pong table and floors.

Outside, a palm-topped swimming pool with cabana seating sits across from an outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven. Lighted walkways, a clay tennis court and a pair of motor courts complete the landscaped grounds.

Seneda Adzem of Douglas Elliman holds the listing.

In addition to the Red Sox, Henry also owns the Boston Globe newspaper and Liverpool Football Club, one of England’s moststoried soccer outfits. As of November, his estimated net worth is $2.6 billion, according to Forbes.

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Mayors Jewelers, a South Florida fixture for more than a century, is getting a reboot with new and revamped stores that have more luxury watch lines and higher-end jewelry.

New watch lines include luxury Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen and Tudor, a Swiss watch that touts celebrity ambassadors Lady Gaga and David Beckham. The retailer also has launched a “Mayors High Jewelry line” that features necklaces, earrings and bracelets, some with yellow diamonds.

Prices are in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.

The new merchandise is just one of the changes for Fort Lauderdale-based Mayors, after the company was acquired last year by the London parent of Watches of Switzerland. Mayors’ existing stores — 15 in Florida and two in Georgia — will get a fresh look. Nearly half of those stores are in South Florida.

The company also has plans to open at least one new store in Coral Gables in the next few months.

While Mayors’ parent company is based in London, the U.S. headquarters will remain operating out of Fort Lauderdale, according to Brian Duffy, CEO of Mayors’ owner, Aurum Holdings. The South Florida headquarters employs about 50 people.

“What we’re doing in Mayors is exactly what we’ve done in the United Kingdom in the last five years. We have a blueprint [for the U.S. operation],” he said.

As a result of upgraded merchandise and design, sales have increased 12 percent in the U.K. over the past four years, Duffy said.

Despite being acquired, Mayors will keep its name, the CEO said. The parent company has opened Watches of Switzerland flagship stores in New York and Las Vegas. But the Florida and Georgia stores remain under the Mayors name.

A new Mayors store will open in Shops at Merrick Park in Coral Gables, with construction scheduled to begin in January and the store expected to open in April. There may be other new stores planned for the tricounty region as well, he said.

The new Coral Gables store is designed to be contemporary and exclusive, but “not intimidating,” Duffy said.

Most Mayors stores will remain in shopping