Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont's owners of record are public and free: the Port of Beaumont holds the single most valuable parcel in the city, utilities and pipelines top the taxpayer list, and the great refineries that define the area pay their taxes just outside the city limits.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 18 sources · 6 tier B · 4 tier A · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Texas keeps no public title register; ownership is read from the county appraisal district. The Jefferson Central Appraisal District (JCAD) posts its whole 2026 roll free on its Data Download page - owner of record, owner mailing address, situs, legal description, acreage, deed date, values and taxing units for every account, certified in July and re-posted as supplemented (latest 7 Oct 2026) - with no licence or disclaimer on the page. Deeds are recorded by the Jefferson County Clerk; JCAD changes an owner only from a recorded deed. Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure and JCAD's export carries deed dates but no sale prices.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (JCAD Data Download roll export); Jefferson County Clerk deed-copy fees not read - www.co.jefferson.tx.us did not answer
Bulk ownership dataJCAD Data Download: 2026 roll 'As supplemented 10/7/2026' (SUPL_GRP_2026_05_PUBLIC.zip, 129 MB; True Automation/PACS fixed-width export, 154,025 accounts countywide, 64,997 carrying the City of Beaumont unit 221) plus the certified 7/20/2026 roll and 2026 GIS parcels; free unauthenticated downloads, no licence stated
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Beaumont (main docks) North of downtown on the Neches River (JCAD account 124334, Tevis tracts) |
Civic | Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County The most valuable account in the city on JCAD's 2026 roll: account 124334 in 'Port of Beaumont', 129.27 acres (86.4 acres after 42.8 submerged acres are deducted), market value $584.8M. The Port holds 290 accounts inside the City unit under three name forms ($600.7M, 304 acres). Wikipedia names the Navigation District as owner and operator, calls it the busiest military port in the world for processing U.S. military equipment, and says it hosts the Army's 842d Transportation Battalion. Enterprise Beaumont Marine West LP holds $111M of terminal on 978 acres beside it. |
Government | —B |
| Edison Plaza 350 Pine St 425,198 sq ft · 17 floors |
Office | Edison Plaza Partners LLC JCAD account 5448, 6.99 acres, 2026 market value $47.85M; with four smaller lots the LLC holds 5 accounts ($48.3M, 9.9 acres), mailed to Suite 800 in the building. It is No. 6 taxpayer to the City ($48.06M taxable). Wikipedia: built 1982 as Gulf States Utilities' headquarters, 254 ft, downtown's tallest; Entergy 'no longer owns the building and leases four floors only'. Wikipedia's infobox names Albanese Cormier Holdings as owner; no filing opened ties that firm to the LLC. |
Private company | —B |
| Parkdale Mall 6155 Eastex Fwy 1,087,996 sq ft (total GLA) |
Retail | Parkdale Mall CMBS, LLC (CBL & Associates Properties) 100% JCAD: Parkdale Mall CMBS LLC (mailed 2030 Hamilton Place Blvd, Chattanooga) holds 11 accounts, 60.1 acres, $40.4M; Parkdale Crossing CMBS LLC 3 more ($12.8M). No. 4 City taxpayer ($53.3M taxable). Both LLCs are on CBL's Exhibit 21 (2025). CBL's 10-K lists the mall at 100%, 86% leased, and 'Parkdale Mall & Crossing' debt of $49.1M at 5.85% due Mar-26 - the 10-K does not say how it was resolved. Wikipedia names a private individual as owner in its infobox; that is not repeated here. One outparcel went to JC832 Texas LLC on 27 Jul 2026. |
REIT | —A |
| Doggett Ford Park and Ford Arena 5115 Interstate 10 South |
Civic | Jefferson County JCAD account 120084, 'Jefferson County', 146.32 acres (legal '155.4544AC 5115 & 5155 IH 10 S'), 2026 market value $36.95M - the County's most valuable account in the city. Wikipedia: a 221-acre complex opened 2003 for $75M, owned by the County and run by OVG360; the 9,737-seat arena cost $32M. The County negotiated from 2020 to sell it to Renaissance Development Group for $22M; the deal fell through in 2022. |
Government | —B |
| Jefferson County Courthouse 1149 Pearl St |
Civic | Jefferson County JCAD account 5402, all of Block 9, 2.07 acres, $6.84M; the County's account at 1001 Pearl St (all of Block 10, 2.07 acres) is valued at $23.24M. Wikipedia: an Art Deco courthouse built 1931, on the National Register since 1982. The County holds 48 accounts inside the City ($75.9M, 214.8 acres). |
Government | —B |
| Beaumont City Hall and Civic Center complex 801 Main St; 701 Main St |
Civic | City of Beaumont JCAD account 5389 at 801 Main St, 'City of Beaumont', 23.67 acres covering Blocks 5, 6, 18, 19 and 25 plus closed roads and Steam Mill Square, $11.90M, deed date 13 Jan 2023; account 5390 at 701 Main St ('Civic Center', 1.79 acres, $5.53M). Wikipedia names the City as owner and operator of the 6,500-seat Beaumont Civic Center. The City's most valuable account is 801 Main; its largest by area is the 263.6-acre Beaumont Municipal Airport tract at 455 Keith Rd ($5.7M). |
Government | —B |
| CHRISTUS Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth (hospital) 2830 Calder Ave / 745 11th St |
Institutional | CHRISTUS Health Southeast Texas JCAD carries the campus in 'Christus Health Southeast TX' (mailed Irving): account 56439 at 745 11th St (6.57 acres, $47.05M), an improvements account there ($8.5M), and the 'Christus-St Elizabeth South Tower Condominium' at 2830 Calder (land 14.67 acres). In all 61 accounts inside the City ($128.6M, 63.8 acres) - the largest private non-profit holding. Wikipedia's employer table lists Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital fourth (2,136). |
Institution | —A |
| Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas 3080 College St |
Institutional | Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas JCAD account 124980, 'Baptist Hospital of SE Texas', 8.03 acres, $30.38M (deed 30 Sep 1999). Under five name forms the hospital holds 42 accounts inside the City ($59.5M, 57.5 acres). The City owns the 21.6-acre tract next door at 3040 College St ($7.2M). Wikipedia lists Baptist Hospital fifth among employers (1,653). |
Institution | —A |
| Lamar University campus 4400 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy area |
Institutional | Lamar University JCAD carries 343 accounts in 'Lamar University' (three name forms) inside the City: 326.7 acres but only $14.5M, because exempt state land is valued far below cost; the largest tracts are 69.1 acres (J W Bullock tracts 187 and 92) and 60.5 acres on University Dr. Lamar Institute of Technology holds 20 more (15.4 acres). Wikipedia gives the campus as 299 acres, citing a 2019 university release, and lists Lamar as the city's largest employer (2,546). |
Government | —B |
| Apartment complex at 4215 Major Dr 4215 Major Dr |
Residential | West End Lodge Beaumont LLC The highest-valued taxable real-property account in the city: JCAD 128637, 21.44 acres, multifamily (B1), 2026 market value $47.59M, owner mailed in Dallas. No. 7 City taxpayer ($47.59M taxable). The roll does not give the complex's trading name and no filing opened names who stands behind the LLC. |
Private company | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Computed from JCAD's 2026 roll as supplemented on 7 Oct 2026 (export SUPL_GRP_2026_05), restricted to accounts carrying the City of Beaumont taxing unit (221). Values are 2026 market values, not prices; exempt public property is valued far below cost.
Accounts in the City64,997 accounts; $14.40B market value
56,052 real-property accounts ($12.47B, 46,826 acres where acreage is stated), 7,595 business personal property, 719 mineral and 631 mobile-home accounts. Single-family houses (A1): 33,983 accounts. JCAD's transfer-tape totals also give 64,997.
Highest-valued account$584.8M - Port of Beaumont docks
JCAD 124334, 129.27 acres, Port of Beaumont Navigation District, exempt.
Highest-valued taxable real-property account$47.85M - Edison Plaza
350 Pine St, 6.99 acres, Edison Plaza Partners LLC; the 4215 Major Dr apartments (West End Lodge Beaumont LLC) follow at $47.59M.
Largest taxpayers to the City, 2026Entergy Texas $306.7M taxable; Enterprise Texas Pipeline $110.3M; American Valve & Hydrant $100.4M
JCAD top-taxpayer report for the City of Beaumont (Aug 2026), market and taxable value incl. personal property. Parkdale Mall CMBS LLC is fourth ($53.3M). ExxonMobil, Beaumont ISD's No. 1 taxpayer ($3.65B market, $1.73B taxable), does not appear on the City's list.
Sale prices on the rollNone
JCAD's public export carries deed dates and instrument numbers but no consideration; Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure.
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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.
Public bodies hold Beaumont's most valuable ground, and the largest is not the City but the Port: the Navigation District's 290 accounts ($600.7M) are worth more than the City, County, school district and university together. The City holds by far the most land (5,193 acres, incl. the municipal airport). The heavy industry that defines the area lies mostly outside the city limits: ExxonMobil's 192 accounts countywide ($4.26B, 3,325 acres) are taxed by Beaumont ISD, but only 48 small ones ($29.4M) carry the City unit. Figures are JCAD 2026 market values as supplemented on 7 Oct 2026, real-property accounts carrying the City of Beaumont unit (221); exempt public land is valued far below cost.
| Name | Type | Inside the City unit, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County Under 'Port of Beaumont', '... Nav' and '... Nav Dist'. One 129-acre dock account carries $584.8M. Countywide 291 accounts, 352.9 acres. |
Government | 290 accounts, 304 acres, $600.7MA |
| Beaumont Independent School District The most valuable school account is Ozen High School, 3443 Fannett Rd (22.1 acres, $120.0M). Beaumont ISD is the city's second-largest employer (Wikipedia, 2,317). |
Government | 136 accounts, 740.6 acres, $193.2MA |
| City of Beaumont Largest by value: City Hall and Steam Mill Square, 801 Main St ($11.9M, 23.7 acres). By area: the Beaumont Municipal Airport tract, 455 Keith Rd (263.6 acres) and the 138.5-acre athletic complex at 1150 Langham Rd. |
Government | 373 accounts, 5,193 acres, $107.3MA |
| Jefferson County Ford Park (146.3 acres, $37.0M) and the courthouse blocks on Pearl St ($30.1M). Countywide 304 accounts, 2,094 acres. |
Government | 48 accounts, 214.8 acres, $75.9MA |
| Beaumont Housing Authority (Housing Authority of the City of Beaumont) Three name forms. Largest: Trinity Grove on Hwy 105 (9.9 acres, $18.7M), Century Heights, 8530 Phelan Blvd ($15.4M), The Crossing Apts and Azure Pointe Apartments. Golden Triangle Redevelopment Corporation holds 2 more accounts ($29.0M); no record opened ties it to the Authority. |
Government | 125 accounts, 79.3 acres, $70.6MA |
| Jefferson County Drainage District No. 6 Ditch and detention tracts under five name forms; 634 accounts and 7,629 acres countywide. |
Government | 404 accounts, 1,389.6 acres, $48.1MA |
| Entergy Texas, Inc. Substations and line tracts. With personal property it is the City's No. 1 taxpayer: $308.6M market, $306.7M taxable (JCAD top-taxpayer report). |
Public company | 97 real-property accounts, 273.9 acres, $35.4MA |
| Lamar University (Texas State University System) Lamar Institute of Technology adds 20 accounts and 15.4 acres. The State of Texas (incl. 'State Highway') holds 211 more accounts, 283.9 acres, $10.6M. |
Government | 343 accounts, 326.7 acres, $14.5MB |
| United States of America Mostly Big Thicket National Preserve land and a 562-acre federal tract (H R Williams survey); plus 4 U.S. Postal Service accounts (31.6 acres). HUD holds 7 acquired houses. |
Government | 48 accounts, 1,308.5 acres, $10.7MA |
| Lower Neches Valley Authority 103 accounts and 3,251.5 acres countywide. |
Government | 37 accounts, 354.3 acres, $6.9MA |
| Railroads: Kansas City Southern Railroad, Union Pacific, BNSF Railway Kansas City Southern 18 accounts (54.7 acres), Union Pacific 15 (83.5 acres), BNSF 10 (8.2 acres) inside the City; countywide KCS holds 117 accounts and 1,364 acres. |
Public company | 43 accounts, 146.4 acres, $4.1MA |
| Diocese of Beaumont Churches, schools and cemeteries; 142 accounts countywide ($58.1M). |
Institution | 102 accounts, 195.5 acres, $26.1MA |
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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.
Beaumont builds few new homes and almost no apartments: the Census Bureau counted 157 single-family units ($46.7M) and no two-unit or multifamily buildings permitted in the city in 2025. No national builder holds lots inside the city; the work is done by local and regional firms. Figures count accounts held in each builder's name inside the City unit on JCAD's 2026 roll - lots and unsold homes (state code O1 is residential inventory) - not homes built; no league table of Beaumont starts by builder was found. Builders whose company names are a person's full name are left out.
| Name | Type | Accounts held inside the City, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Galaxy Homes LLC 56 of them residential inventory (O1), 17.4 acres; a separate 'Galaxy Homes LLC Series 1' holds 332 acres in two tracts. |
Private company | 57 accountsA |
| Redwood Development LP 24 residential inventory, 77.8 acres, $4.1M. |
Developer | 51 accountsA |
| Phorat Development LLC $5.6M, 8.6 acres; 14 deeds dated 2024-2026, most of them houses. |
Developer | 32 accountsA |
| DRC Construction LLC $7.1M, 36.7 acres. |
Private company | 26 accountsA |
| Civic Star Homes LLC Mostly vacant lots (C1) deeded 2024-2025. |
Private company | 21 accountsA |
| CPG Home Builders LLC 16 vacant lots deeded 20 Jun 2024. Hamdan Home Builders LLC holds 12 accounts under three spellings. |
Private company | 16 accountsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Beaumont's private commercial wealth is pipelines, utilities, one regional mall, one office tower and apartments on the west side (Major Dr, Dowlen Rd). National REITs appear only as single-asset LLCs. Figures are JCAD 2026 market values for real-property accounts inside the City unit unless stated.
| Name | Type | Market value inside the city, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| CBL & Associates Properties (Parkdale Mall CMBS LLC, Parkdale Crossing CMBS LLC) Parkdale Mall and Parkdale Crossing; both LLCs are on CBL's 2025 Exhibit 21. |
REIT | 14 accounts, 71.3 acres, $53.2MA |
| Edison Plaza Partners LLC Edison Plaza, the city's tallest building, and adjacent lots. |
Private company | 5 accounts, 9.9 acres, $48.3MA |
| West End Lodge Beaumont LLC 4215 Major Dr, owner mailed Dallas. Other large apartment owners: Stoneleigh on Major LLC (2 accounts, $39.4M, Dallas), LPI Beaumont LLC ($38.8M, Atlanta), The Woodlands at Beaumont ($28.8M). |
Private company | 1 apartment account, 21.4 acres, $47.6MA |
| Self-storage: Sovran Acquisition Limited and PS LPT Properties Investors Sovran Acquisition Limited (Salt Lake City) 5 accounts, $23.7M; PS LPT Properties Investors (Glendale, CA) 3 accounts, $21.2M. No filing was opened to tie these names to a listed REIT. |
Private company | 8 accounts, $44.9MA |
| Medical office: GMR Beaumont LLC and VTR Collier Park Beaumont LLC GMR Beaumont LLC (Bethesda, MD), 6025 Metropolitan Dr, $20.9M, deed 2019; VTR Collier Park Beaumont LLC (Louisville, KY), 4650 Collier Rd, $17.3M, deed Oct 2024. No filing was opened to tie them to a listed REIT. |
Private company | 2 accounts, $38.2MA |
| Single-family and townhouse rental holders (KW Rentals LLC, SARK Investments LLC, Xore Capital LLC) KW Rentals (Houston) is the largest holder of single-family houses (A1) in the city; SARK Investments (Beaumont) holds Ashley Square and Odom Place townhouse units. Rental holding is fragmented: no other entity holds more than 37 houses. |
Private company | KW Rentals 58 houses ($6.4M); SARK 146 townhouse units ($12.2M); Xore 37 houses ($3.6M)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who stands behind Edison Plaza Partners LLC. Wikipedia's infobox names Albanese Cormier Holdings as owner; no filing or record opened links that firm to the LLC.
- How CBL resolved the Parkdale Mall & Crossing loan ($49.1M at 5.85%) due March 2026; the 2025 10-K lists it among 2026 maturities only.
- Who stands behind West End Lodge Beaumont LLC, Stoneleigh on Major LLC, LPI Beaumont LLC and the self-storage and medical-office LLCs; no filing opened names their members.
- The trading name of the apartment complex at 4215 Major Dr; JCAD's roll does not give it.
- Sale prices: JCAD's export carries none, and the Jefferson County Clerk's records and fees were not reached (www.co.jefferson.tx.us did not answer).
- Whether Golden Triangle Redevelopment Corporation (2 accounts, $29.0M) is an affiliate of the Beaumont Housing Authority.
- The exact owner entity of each CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth tower; part of the campus is a condominium (South Tower) whose unit accounts are split.
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Sources
- 2026 appraisal roll export 'As supplemented 10/7/2026' (SUPL_GRP_2026_05_PUBLIC.zip: APPRAISAL_INFO and transfer-tape totals EXP2026_05.pdf): 154,025 accounts countywide, 64,997 carrying the City of Beaumont (221) taxing unit — Jefferson Central Appraisal District · openA
- Data Download (2025 and 2026 certified and supplemented rolls, 2026 GIS parcel data, GIS entity data) — Jefferson Central Appraisal District · openA
- FAQs ('The District uses deed records recorded with the Jefferson County Clerk's office to correct ownership information') — Jefferson Central Appraisal District · openA
- Top Taxpayers 2026 - City of Beaumont (market and taxable value, ten largest) — Jefferson Central Appraisal District (True Automation report) · openA
- Top Taxpayers 2026 - Beaumont ISD — Jefferson Central Appraisal District (True Automation report) · openA
- JCAD Reports (tax rates, certified values, top-taxpayer reports, annual reports) — Jefferson Central Appraisal District · openA
- Port of Beaumont — Wikipedia · openA
- Edison Plaza — Wikipedia · openA
- Ford Park (Doggett Ford Park) — Wikipedia · openA
- Ford Arena — Wikipedia · openA
- Beaumont Civic Center — Wikipedia · openA
- Jefferson County Courthouse (Texas) — Wikipedia · openA
- Lamar University — Wikipedia · openA
- Beaumont, Texas — Wikipedia · openA
- Parkdale Mall — Wikipedia · openA
- CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. Form 10-K for 2025 (filed 3 Mar 2026): property table and debt maturities — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. Exhibit 21, subsidiaries as of 31 Dec 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2025, South Region (so2025a.txt): Beaumont, TX — U.S. Census Bureau · openA