A $28 million waterfront estate in Mercer Island’s Shorewood neighborhood recently sold to a Texas oil tycoon in one of the Puget Sound region’s largest residential sales of the year.
The buyers, Rodney R. Lewis and Hanne Maureen Zak, closed on the property in an off-market transaction on June 30 and paid nearly double the property’s combined assessed value of $15.2 million, according to The Seattle Times.
Lewis is the founder and CEO of Lewis Energy Group, a San Antonio-based oil and natural gas company. Lewis is also an aviation enthusiast who founded Lewis Air Legends, a Texas-based organization that holds the world’s largest private collection of WWII airplanes…