McDonald’s mogul’s family sells Palm Beach lot for $27M

The family of the late George Cohon, the entrepreneur credited with expanding McDonald’s franchises internationally, sold a waterfront lot in Palm Beach for $27.5 million, and their primary estate is also in contract to sell.  Records show the Cohons sold the half-acre lot at Tarpon Way to Could Be 81 LLC, a Florida entity managed by attorney Brian Chesky. Suzanne Frisbie with the Corcoran Group had the listing, and Liza Pulitzer and Whitney McGurk brought the buyer. George Cohon was the first international franchisee of McDonald’s, primarily in Canada, but is best known as the man who brought the Big […]

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