Evansville, Indiana

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.

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

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.

Inside Evansville's four city taxing districts (50,028 parcels on the roll), the big blocks of ground belong to public bodies. The airport authority's 1,261-acre field is the most valuable parcel in the city, and the City itself holds 232 parcels and 1,406 acres, mostly parks, water and sewer works and redevelopment lots. The school corporation, the University of Evansville and the two hospital systems follow. The Evansville Land Bank holds 188 mostly vacant lots, the clearest sign of distress on the roll. Figures are parcels in the owner's name inside the city, with county-wide totals where they add something. Many parcels carry no acreage, so acres are a floor.

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.

Evansville builds few new homes: the city permitted 165 single-family houses and 13 duplexes in 2024 and no buildings of five or more units, and its 2025 count (181 single-family) is imputed by the Census Bureau because the city reported no months. Most new subdivisions are in the unincorporated county, which permitted 182 houses in 2025. The builders on the roll are regional family firms from Owensboro and Evansville, not national public builders: no parcel is held in the name of D.R. Horton, Lennar, Pulte or NVR. Builder figures are parcels in the builder's own name on the county roll (lots and unsold homes), not closings.

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

No national single-family rental company appears on the roll under its own name: there are no parcels held as AH4R or American Homes 4 Rent, Progress Residential, Invitation Homes or FirstKey. Rental housing is held instead by local LLCs with 50 to 200 houses each, and by apartment owners from out of town. The biggest commercial values are the casino (a gaming REIT), the mall (a mall REIT), the Old National headquarters and the warehouses at the airport. Counts are parcels in the owner's name inside the city.

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

1. Vanderburgh County Assessor, ASSESSOR/PARCEL_DATA MapServer layer 0 'Tax Parcels' (fields include OWNER1, OwnerName, PROPSTREET, PROPERTYCLASS, TownshipName (taxing district, e.g. 'EVANSVILLE CITY-PIGEON'), LastSaleDate, LastSalePrice, acreage, SquareFootage, YearBuilt, LANDVALUATION, IMPVALUATION, TOTVALUATION); service description: 'Vanderburgh County Indiana, Assessor Property boundaries for GIS web services ... compiled from public records and data'; copyright 'Vanderburgh County Indiana Assessors Office'; full attribute read 1 Nov 2026 — Vanderburgh County Assessor, on the City of Evansville / Vanderburgh County GIS server (maps.evansvillegis.com) · openA
2. Vanderburgh_County_IN_Parcel_Layer (item page, organisation 'Vanderburgh Assessor': 'all current tax parcels located within Vanderburgh County, IN'; 79,453 parcels; parcel ID, name and address only, no owner fields; data last edited April 2025; licence text is a disclaimer of warranty) — Vanderburgh County Assessor via ArcGIS Online · openA
3. XSoft Engage, Vanderburgh County, Indiana: assessment portal ('Names and addresses of “covered persons” are restricted. Data may be limited or unavailable pursuant to IC 36-1-8.5'; 'Data current as of: 11-01-2026') and its Terms & Conditions (effective 17 Oct 2025) — XSoft, Inc. for Vanderburgh County · openA
4. Sales Disclosure Form Information: 'The DLGF has developed a public search application for post-July 1, 2008 sales disclosures ... IC 6-1.1-5.5-3(d) restricts the release of phone numbers in this search application'; Sales Disclosure Form 46021 — Indiana Department of Local Government Finance · openA
5. Recorders Fees and Funds, NEO training, Dec 2024: IC 36-2-7-10, effective 7-1-15: 'Recording deed or other instrument, other than mortgage $25'; 'Recording mortgage $55' — Indiana State Board of Accounts · openA
6. Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2025, Midwest region: row 'Evansville' (Indiana, place 22000, county 163): 181 single-family buildings and units ($58,490,243), 15 two-unit buildings (30 units), no 3+ unit buildings; months reported 0, so the row is imputed. Row 'Vanderburgh County Unincorporated Area': 182 single-family, 24 two-unit buildings, 12 months reported — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
7. Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2024, Midwest region: row 'Evansville' (Indiana): 165 single-family units ($54,580,564), 13 two-unit buildings (26 units), no 5+ unit buildings, 12 months reported — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
8. Building Permits Survey, annual county file 2025: row 'Vanderburgh County' (18-163): 363 single-family units ($103,534,011), 39 two-unit buildings (78 units), no 3+ unit buildings — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
9. Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., Form 10-K for 2025: Item 2 lists 'Bally's Evansville, Evansville, IN, Bally's Master Lease'; Schedule III: 'Bally's Evansville' land $120,473k, buildings $153,130k, total $273,603k, acquired 6/3/2021; 'Tropicana Evansville' (acquired 10/1/2018) carried at nil after a $194,369k reduction — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
10. The Macerich Company, Form 10-K for 2025, Item 2: 'Eastland Mall(5)', Evansville, Indiana, Company's ownership 100%, original construction/acquisition 1978/1998, last expansion 1996, total GLA 1,013,000, mall and freestanding GLA 524,000, 91.1% leased, non-owned anchors Dillard's and Macy's, company-owned anchor JCPenney; footnote (5): at seven centres 'portions of the underlying land controlled by the Company are owned by' third parties — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
11. Old National Bancorp, Form 10-K for 2025, Item 2 Properties: 'its corporate headquarters located in Evansville, Indiana, which was purchased by Old National in 2016'; 346 banking centres, 193 owned and 153 leased — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
12. Bally's Evansville: 'owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Bally's Corporation'; opened 1995 as Casino Aztar; moved from riverboat to land in 2017; 2018 real estate sold to GLP; Bally's bought the operating business from Caesars in 2021 for $140 million, leasing the property from GLP for $28 million per year — Wikipedia · openA
13. Eastland Mall (Evansville, Indiana): North Green River Road; opened August 1981; owner Macerich; 'Total square footage for Eastland Mall is one million'; Macerich received the mall when the Simon-Macerich partnership was dissolved, assuming management in January 2012 — Wikipedia · openA
14. Evansville Regional Airport: 'owned and operated by the Evansville-Vanderburgh Airport Authority District'; covers 1,250 acres; three runways (4/22 8,021 ft) — Wikipedia · openA
15. Ford Center (Evansville): address 1 Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; owner City of Evansville; operator Venuworks; opened 5 Nov 2011; cost $127.5 million; capacity 11,000 — Wikipedia · openA
16. Fifth Third Center (Evansville): 15 stories, 226 ft, 180,500 sq ft, attached ~450-car garage; opened 21 Dec 1981 for Citizens National Bank; 'In 2018, Riverview Investments LLC purchased the building'; 'currently the tallest building in Evansville' — Wikipedia · openA
17. University of Evansville: private university founded 1854 as Moores Hill College, 'Evansville College (1919–1967)'; urban campus of 100 acres — Wikipedia · openA
18. Evansville, Indiana: healthcare centres include 'Deaconess Health System and Ascension St. Vincent Evansville (formerly St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center)'; the University of Southern Indiana is 'just outside the city's westside limits'; Bally's Evansville 'the state's first casino' — Wikipedia · openA
19. List of tallest buildings in Evansville: 1 Fifth Third Center (226 ft, 16 floors, 1981); Kunkel Square (12 floors); Bally's Evansville (150 ft, 12 floors, 1996); Old National Place (144 ft, 8 floors, 2004); CenterPoint Energy Plaza (136 ft, 8 floors, 2005, formerly One Vectren Square) — Wikipedia · openA
20. Deaconess Health System: founded 1892 in a house on Mary Street, Evansville, as a 19-bed hospital; Deaconess Gateway Hospital (2006) is in Newburgh — Wikipedia · openA