LAKE PLACID – The drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band broke an Adirondack price record as he bought a building lot on Lake Placid where the sellers were forced to tear down an unpermitted boathouse last year.

The Grimditch family, doing business as Happy Hill LLC, sold the vacant 1.84-acre lot for $2 million last week, according to their real estate agent Mike Damp, associate broker at Select Sotheby’s in Lake Placid. Damp and Select Sotheby’s would not name the buyer, but Essex County records show it was Max and Rebecca Weinberg, listing an address of 250 Bradley Place, Palm Beach, Florida.

That address, combined with Darrell Hofheinz’s real estate column for the Palm Beach Daily News, confirms it’s the same Max Weinberg who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as Springsteen’s drummer since 1974 and who spent 17 years as bandleader of Conan O’Brien’s late-night television shows on NBC, “Late Night” and the “Tonight Show.”

The nearly $1.1 million-per-acre purchase price is the highest for a single lot without buildings in the Adirondack Park, according to a statement from Select Sotheby’s International Realty.

The property sits on a cape on the east shore of Lake Placid and has road access at 571 Mount Whitney Way. Its view of Whiteface Mountain is particularly attractive, Damp said.

“It’s a great Whiteface view lot,” he said. “The sun sets to the left, and it’s a fine piece of land.”

The lot has 170 feet of frontage on Lake Placid, which means it sold for $11,765 per waterfront foot.

“Part of the reason that I wanted a higher price is that it’s very rare that you have a vacant lot on the lake anymore,” Damp added. “Basically people are buying old camps as tear-downs.”

That suggests demand for high-end real estate remains high in the Adirondacks. Last year, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, paid $23 million for Brandon Park, 28,100 acres in the town of Santa Clara that had formerly been owned by members of the Rockefeller and du Pont families.

“There’s definitely still money out there,” Damp said.

Weinberg was described as “a serial renovator” in the lead of a January article in the Wall Street Journal. He and his wife have bought and sold properties in Palm Beach and also in Italy, Washington, D.C., and his home state of New Jersey.

“I’ve bought and sold about 36 homes, lived in maybe like three of them,” he told the Journal.

His professional agent did not immediately return a request for comment.

Springsteen, meanwhile, has visited Lake Placid several times with his family, and his daughter Jessica has competed in the Lake Placid Horse Shows.

Sotheby’s said the sale of the Lake Placid property closed on Oct. 25; it was registered with the county the following day.

The Grimditches got a good return out of a painful situation, in which they lost a nearly five-year legal battle. In 2010, longtime resident William H. Grimditch Jr. and his wife Carolyn built two boathouses without town permits and violated the town’s stop-work order as they tried to beat new state Adirondack Park Agency regulations for boathouses. The legal case that followed was potentially precedent-setting as the family’s lawyer argued that town zoning laws don’t apply to any boathouse statewide, since the state Department of Environmental Conservation has jurisdiction on navigable bodies of water. Essex County Judge Richard Meyer ruled in the family’s favor, but higher courts overturned his decision. By that time, William H. Grimditch Jr. had died in 2013 and his family had assumed responsibility for the case.

They dismantled both boathouses last year. The larger one, which had three bays, was on the parcel the Weinbergs bought.

“It’s a clean lot now,” Damp said.

The Grimditches owned three parcels next to each other on the lake. They still own one containing Camp Redtop, their rustic luxury home. It’s for sale with Damp as the agent, with a list price of $4,375,000.