Auburn, New York
Who owns Auburn, NY: the owner of record of all 9,055 parcels is free on the State's public tax-parcel layer, and the largest holders are the City, the State prison, Cayuga County and the school district.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 8 sources · 8 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-31
New York records title by deed. In Auburn the deeds are filed with the Cayuga County Clerk, and the City's assessor keeps the tax roll. Cayuga County has authorised the State to publish its parcels, so the NYS public tax-parcel layer gives owner of record, mailing address, property class, assessed and full market value and the deed book and page for every parcel, free and without registration. The roll has no sale price: the price is on the State form RP-5217 filed with each deed, and the State charges a transfer tax of $2 per $500 of price.
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Correctional Facility 135 State St 885,985 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Institutional | New York State Urban Development Corporation The 2025 roll lists 135 State St (print key 115.43-2-78) under 'NYS Urban Dev Corp', additional owner line 'Prison', class 670 correctional facility, 23.0 acres, built 1970 (roll year field), full market value $59,847,867 (assessed $44,885,900), wholly exempt roll section. It is the highest-valued parcel in the city. Wikipedia: a maximum-security state prison opened 1818, capacity 1,821, managed by the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. |
Government | —A |
| Auburn City Hall 24 South St 19,620 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Civic | City of Auburn Roll: 'City Of Auburn', additional owner line 'City Hall', class 652 office, 1.3 acres, full market value $2,442,533. |
Government | —A |
| Cayuga County office building 160 Genesee St 69,332 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Civic | Cayuga County Roll: 'Cayuga County Real Property R', class 652, building style 'Highrise off', 1.3 acres, built 1967, full market value $3,774,667. The County holds the neighbouring 157 and 95 Genesee St office parcels too. |
Government | —A |
| Cayuga County Courthouse 152 Genesee St 46,828 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Civic | Cayuga County Roll owner line reads 'Cayuga County Court Hse', class 652, full market value $3,828,800. |
Government | —A |
| Auburn Community Hospital 17 Lansing St 254,860 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Institutional | Auburn Community Hospital (on the roll under its former name, Auburn Memorial Hospital) Roll: 'Auburn Memorial Hospital', 6.9 acres, full market value $33,017,867, exempt. Wikipedia (s5) gives 'Auburn Memorial Hospital' as a former name of Auburn Community Hospital, an acute-care hospital founded 1878 and the largest employer in Cayuga County. The roll carries 12 parcels under the two names, $49.1M full market value in all. |
Institution | —B |
| Cayuga Community College, Auburn campus 197-199 Franklin St 284,000 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Institutional | Cayuga County Roll: 'Cayuga County Real Property R', class 613 college/university, 39.4 acres, full market value $25,407,200. Other college parcels are entered as 'Cayuga County in Trust for, Cayuga Comm College'. Wikipedia (s6) gives a 50-acre campus. |
Government | —A |
| Auburn Plaza 217 Grant Ave 248,479 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Retail | Auburn Associates LLC Roll: 'Auburn Associates LLC', class 452 local shopping centre, 29.04 acres, built 1980, full market value $23,128,667 (land $8.5M assessed), the highest-valued taxable parcel in the city; the company holds 3 parcels ($23.9M). The name 'Auburn Plaza' for 217 Grant Ave comes from tenants' store-locator listings seen in search results, which were not opened. |
Private company | —B |
| Walmart 297 Grant Ave 201,003 sq ft GFA (roll) |
Retail | Walmart Inc. Roll: 'Walmart Inc.', class 453 large retail, 16.44 acres, built 1995, full market value $18,000,000. |
Public company | —A |
| Nucor Steel Auburn mill 25 Quarry Rd 449,025 sq ft GFA (roll); 520,000 sq ft (Nucor 10-K) |
Industrial | Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. (Nucor Corporation) Roll: 'Nucor Steel Auburn', additional owner line 'A I D A LEASEHOLD' (the Auburn Industrial Development Authority), class 710 heavy industry, 27.8 acres, full market value $19,468,133; the company has 7 parcels, 81.9 acres. Nucor's 10-K for 2025 lists an Auburn, New York steel mill of about 520,000 sq ft making steel shapes and says 'We own most of our principal operating facilities'; it names the subsidiary Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. |
Public company | —A |
| Falcon Park 130 N Division St |
Civic | City of Auburn Roll: 'City Of Auburn', 'Falcon Park', class 682 stadium, 5.76 acres, full market value $3,709,867. Wikipedia (s4): owner City of Auburn; rebuilt stadium opened June 22, 1995 at a cost of $3,145,000, capacity 2,800; the City bought the stadium and the franchise in 1981 'by assuming the former team's unpaid debts'. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The 2025 roll values the whole city at $2.32B full market value ($1.74B assessed). The most valuable parcels are public: the prison, the water and sewage plants, the hospital and the high school.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Auburn's land is held mainly by government. Of 9,055 parcels on the 2025 roll (about 4,597 acres by GIS area), the City holds 174 parcels and some 550 acres: its water filtration plant and the State dam at the Owasco Lake outlet ($42.3M), the sewage plant ($32.7M), a hydro plant, parks, Falcon Park and the old landfill. The State prison, the school district and the County come next. Private holdings are spread thin: no private owner other than Nucor holds more than about 35 parcels. Figures are counts of the owner-of-record line on the NYS public parcel layer (s1), acres by GIS area.
| Name | Type | Holdings (2025 roll) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Auburn Includes 230 Osborne St (water filtration plant / State dam, $42.3M), 35 Bradley St (sewage treatment plant, $32.7M), 269 Clark St hydro plant, 311 N Division St old landfill (94.5 acres), City Hall, police and fire stations, the Lincoln St parking garage, Casey Park and Falcon Park. Wikipedia (s7) says the Owasco Lake outlet dam is 'owned and operated by the city'. |
Government | 174 parcels, ~550 acres, $147.7M full market valueA |
| Auburn Enlarged City School District Entered as 'Board Of Education'; largest is 250 Lake Ave (52 acres, 300,342 sq ft, $32.5M). |
Government | 12 parcels, ~199 acres, $61.9MA |
| State of New York Auburn Correctional Facility under the Urban Development Corporation ($59.8M), NYS DOT parcels and two State hostels. |
Government | 12 parcels, ~43 acres, $65.1MA |
| Cayuga County Courthouse, office buildings on Genesee St and the Cayuga Community College campus, some held 'in trust for' the college. The Cayuga County Water & Sewer Authority has 2 more parcels. |
Government | 25 parcels, ~93 acres, $49.8MA |
| Auburn Community Hospital Under 'Auburn Memorial Hospital' and 'Auburn Community Hospital'. |
Institution | 12 parcels, $49.1MA |
| Auburn Industrial Development Authority Entered as 'A I D A'; includes a 309,234 sq ft light-industrial building at 1-3 Goulds Dr and a medical office at 37 W Garden St. |
Government | 10 parcels, ~59 acres, $18.8M; plus a leasehold line on NucorA |
| Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. Steel mill at 25 Quarry Rd; see marquee. |
Public company | 7 parcels, 81.9 acres, $20.9MA |
| NYSEG (New York State Electric & Gas) Utility land and the 73 Wright Cir office. |
Private company | 18 parcels, ~64 acres, $14.3MA |
| Finger Lakes Railway Corp. Rail corridor. |
Private company | 3 parcels, ~33 acresA |
| Auburn Housing Authority / AHA Development Corporation AHA Development Corporation holds 5 parcels (51 Merriman St Ext, built 2016); the authority is the additional owner of T H Brogan Manor, 2 Olympia Ave. |
Government | 6 parcels, $11.0MA |
| United States (USPS and federal) 'United States of America' and 'US Postal Service'. |
Government | 2 parcels, ~2 acres, $2.0MA |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Auburn builds very few new homes: the roll has 134 parcels with a build year of 2000 or later, and 16 since 2020. New single-family building is mostly on one subdivision, Vitale Dr, where the lots are split between a land company and a builder. Rentals are small houses and two-families, and the larger rental owners are local LLCs holding 10–35 parcels each. The biggest apartment blocks are subsidised housing-development-fund companies (Melone Village, Brogan Manor, Stryker Housing, PFI Housing). Roll counts below are parcels by owner-of-record line, names only for companies.
| Name | Type | Parcels (2025 roll) |
|---|---|---|
| PMV Vitale Realty, LLC Land holder for the Vitale Dr subdivision. |
Private company | 31 parcels (30 vacant residential lots, Vitale Dr)A |
| ASM Builders LLC Entered under three spellings. |
Private company | 14 parcels on Vitale Dr (12 lots, 2 houses built 2023)A |
| K Keysor, LLC | Private company | 9 parcels; 4 attached units built 2023 (Cottage St)A |
| RM11A Holdings, LLC 138 Standart Ave, the newest large apartment parcel. |
Private company | 113,388 sq ft garden apartments, built 2014, $12.2MA |
| Petro Rentals, Inc. The largest single-family-rental holder by parcel count. |
Private company | 35 parcels (32 one-, two- and three-family)A |
| Renpro, LLC Entered under six spellings. |
Private company | 29 parcels (27 one-, two- and three-family)A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
There are no REITs of note here. The largest commercial owners on the roll are the shopping-centre and big-box owners on Grant Ave, two manufacturers in the industrial park and hotel companies downtown, each with one or two parcels. Only JBJ Real Property LLC holds a large number of commercial parcels.
| Name | Type | Floor area / value (2025 roll) |
|---|---|---|
| Auburn Associates LLC Auburn Plaza, 217 Grant Ave. |
Private company | 3 parcels, 251,564 sq ft, $23.9MA |
| Tessy Auburn Facility LLC Light manufacturing at 4900 Tech Park Blvd, built 1992. |
Private company | 444,450 sq ft, 30.7 acres, $18.3MA |
| Walmart Inc. 297 Grant Ave. |
Public company | 201,003 sq ft, $18.0MA |
| Gen-West Associates, LLC 101 Columbus St (light manufacturing, built 2013) and Wright Ave. |
Private company | 2 parcels, 166,938 sq ft, $8.6MA |
| JBJ Real Property, LLC Mostly row retail and office on E Genesee St and John St. |
Private company | 22 parcels, 115,516 sq ft, $8.0MA |
| Auburn Real Estate Co. Inc. / Auburn Hotel Ventures, LLC The two hotel parcels: 74 State St (built 2012) and 75 North St. |
Private company | 72,267 and 117,877 sq ft; $10.2M and $10.0MA |
| Wegmans Food Market Inc Supermarket at 1 Loop Rd. |
Private company | 3 parcels, 70,425 sq ft, $6.3MA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Sale prices: the State Sales Web (RP-5217) was not used (earlier records found it routes searches through a CAPTCHA), so no marquee building carries a price.
- Cayuga County Clerk deed-search and copy fees: www.cayugacounty.gov is a Cloudflare block, so titleSearchFee is null.
- The trade names of the two hotels (74 State St, 75 North St) and of the Tessy plant were not established from an opened source.
- NYSEG's parent company was not checked.
Sources
- NYS_Tax_Parcels_Public (MapServer layer 1), 2025 assessment roll, SWIS 050100 City of Auburn — NYS Office of Information Technology Services, Geospatial Services, with NYS ORPTS and Cayuga County · openA
- Real estate transfer tax — NYS Department of Taxation and Finance · openA
- Auburn Correctional Facility — Wikipedia · openA
- Falcon Park — Wikipedia · openA
- Auburn Community Hospital — Wikipedia · openA
- Cayuga Community College — Wikipedia · openA
- Auburn, New York — Wikipedia · openA
- Nucor Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, Item 2 Properties — Nucor Corporation / SEC EDGAR · openA