Sportmart Founder Sells Lakefront Home in Highland Park

The founder of Sportmart sold his mansion on the lakefront in Highland Park, a home he had owned for more than 25 years.

Larry Hochberg, who founded the first “category-killer” in sporting goods in 1971 in Niles, sold his four-bedroom, five-bath blufftop house on North Deere Park Drive on Nov. 16, according to Crain’s Chicago. It fetched $2.8 million.

Built in 1925, the home has a Spanish tile roof and a staircase down the bluff to the home’s 85 feet of Lake Michigan beach.

The Sportmart name went defunct in 2005, two years after it merged with Sports Authority.

Hochberg and his wife listed the property in August for just under $3 million.

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