Lake Charles, Louisiana
Who owns Lake Charles: the City, the Port and the Chennault airport authority hold the most land; a family partnership holds 1,415 acres; the two big casino resorts sit on Port land; the owner of every parcel is free on the parish GIS.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 11 sources · 8 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Louisiana is a civil-law state with no title register: ownership passes by a notarial act of sale recorded in the conveyance books of the parish where the land lies, here kept by the Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court. The Calcasieu Parish Assessor lists and values every parcel; the Police Jury's public GIS publishes its parcel layer, with the owner name and mailing address of all 167,981 parcels in the parish, free and without registration (no values). The Clerk's online index of mortgages and conveyances is a paid subscription ($1 a page), but the Clerk also posts a free list of residential sales with date, address and price.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner name and mailing address free on the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury GIS parcel layer; Assessor's parcel search free (reCAPTCHA). Clerk of Court online conveyance and mortgage index by subscription, 'ALL account types to charge $1 per page' (fees updated 1 July 2025); at the counter copies $1.00 a page, certification of mortgages and conveyances $10.00
Bulk ownership dataCalcasieu Parish Police Jury ArcGIS feature service HubLayers/Parcels (167,981 parcels parish-wide; PIN, owner name, mailing address, assessment number, physical address, tax ward, zoning, legal description); public, free, no registration, no licence stated. 53,388 parcels carry the Lake Charles city ward code 3L.
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Charles City Hall 326 Pujo St |
Civic | City of Lake Charles Parish parcel layer: parcel 061008-1397-13-000C, 0.19 acres, owner 'LAKE CHARLES CITY OF', physical address 326 Pujo St, legal description 'COM SW COR INTERSECTION BILBO AND PUJO STS ... "CITY HALL"'. The layer carries no values. |
Government | —A |
| L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles 777 Ave L'Auberge (casino district on Contraband Bayou, off I-210) |
Hotel | Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. GLPI's 2025 10-K Schedule III lists L'Auberge Lake Charles as a rental property acquired 28 Apr 2016 (Pinnacle real estate), carried at $14.8M land and $310.9M buildings ($325.6M gross, built 2005), leased to PENN under the Amended Pinnacle Master Lease. PENN's 10-K (s10): 70,000 sq ft gaming, 995 hotel rooms; PENN owns 54 acres of undeveloped land and leases 235 acres. The parish layer (s1) shows PNK (Lake Charles) LLC, c/o PENN, on 20 parcels (29.8 acres); the Port's ACFR (s8) says the resort is on land leased from the District. |
REIT | —B |
| Golden Nugget Lake Charles Casino and Resort 2550 Golden Nugget Blvd (casino district on Contraband Bayou) |
Hotel | Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (land) The Port's 2024 ACFR: 'The Golden Nugget Lake Charles Casino and Resort is located on land leased from the District', with 1,040 hotel rooms and suites, an 18-hole golf course, an 18,000 sq ft ballroom and a 30,000 sq ft meeting and event center. Golden Nugget was the District's No. 3 customer in 2024 ($3.90M, 8.30% of operating revenue) and the parish's No. 7 property taxpayer ($47.7M assessed, Assessor data). No Golden Nugget-named parcel is on the parish layer; the District's 470.8-acre assessment covers the land west of I-210 here. The ACFR mentions 'a number of Landry's signature restaurants'; who owns the improvements was not established from a filing. (Roll: s1.) |
Government | —B |
| Prien Lake Mall 496 W Prien Lake Rd 717,956 sq ft |
Retail | Simon Property Group, L.P. 100% Simon's 2025 10-K: Prien Lake Mall, Lake Charles, 'Fee and Ground Lease (2040)', 100.0% owned, built 1972, 92.5% leased, 717,956 sq ft; anchors Dillard's, JCPenney, Cinemark, Kohl's, Dick's, T.J. Maxx/HomeGoods. Schedule III carries it at $76.9M gross ($4.9M land). The parish layer has 'SIMON PROPERTY GROUP L P' (d/b/a Simon Real Estate Group LP) on a 15.9-acre parcel at 312 Prien Lake Rd W and 3 assessments in all (19.9 acres). |
REIT | —A |
| Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 1701 Oak Park Blvd |
Institutional | Southwest Louisiana Hospital [Association] (name truncated on the layer) Parish layer: 2 parcels, 13.0 acres, owner 'SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL *' (the layer cuts names at 30 characters), legal description 'L C MEMORIAL HOSPITAL'. The same owner holds 85 parcels (36.6 acres) in the city, clinics and offices around the campus. Lake Charles Memorial Health System is the parish's No. 2 employer (2,600+, Port ACFR 2024). |
Institution | —A |
| CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital 524 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr |
Institutional | Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Parish layer: assessment 00755028, 8 parcels, 4.3 acres at 524 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr, owner 'SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE / INCARNATE WORD'. CHRISTUS Health Southwestern (name truncated) holds a further 79 parcels, 59.3 acres, in the city, including the 14.6-acre former Humana hospital lot at 4200 Nelson Rd. |
Institution | —A |
| Chennault International Airport 3650 Sen J Bennett Johnston Ave |
Civic | Chennault International Airport Authority Parish layer: 49 parcels, 413.1 acres in 15 assessments under 'CHENNAULT INTERNATIONAL AIRPO*' (truncated); one legal description reads '88.16 AC DONATED TO CHENNAULT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY'. The former Chennault Air Force Base tract is split: the City of Lake Charles holds a 708.9-acre assessment (43 parcels) in the same sections, and further City tracts are described as 'a portion of the McNeese State University tract of Chennault Air Force Base'. |
Government | —A |
| Port of Lake Charles City Docks Sallier St W / Port facilities on the Calcasieu River |
Industrial | Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District Parish layer: a 151.7-acre District assessment (12 parcels) at Sallier St W. The Port's 2024 ACFR: City Docks has 5 usable transit sheds and 13 usable warehouses, about 1.0 million sq ft of usable covered storage; the District owns 'approximately 5,500 acres in Southwest Louisiana', and lease revenues were about $20.4M, 43% of operating revenue, in 2024. |
Government | —A |
| Lake Charles Civic Center and lakefront 900 Lakeshore Dr |
Civic | City of Lake Charles Parish layer: assessment 00754447 (6 parcels, 48.9 acres) owned by 'LAKE CHARLES CITY OF', physical address 'CIVIC CENTER', with the Peace Tower strip between Hwy 90 and the lake. Further City lakefront tracts sit at 507 Lakeshore Dr N (6.5 acres) and North Beach (24.6 acres, partly under water). |
Government | —A |
| Calcasieu Parish Government Building 1011 Lakeshore Dr |
Civic | Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Parish layer: 1011 Lakeshore Dr, owner 'CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY' (0.67 + 0.69 acres, 'IMPS/91/93 OFC BLD') and an adjoining 1.02-acre 'CALCASIEU PARISH' tract fronting the lake; the Police Jury also holds 901 Lakeshore Dr (0.6 + 0.86 acres) and the courthouse square lots. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The parish layer carries owners but no values, so the value figures are parish-wide from the Port's ACFR. The roll's ten biggest taxpayers are refineries, chemical plants, LNG and the two casino resorts.
Parcels in the city53,388 parcels; 34,776 assessments; 26,070 acres
Parish GIS layer, ward code 3L, read November 2026 (167,981 parcels parish-wide). Acres computed from parcel polygons; the city limits polygon is 50.39 sq mi including water.
Top 10 parish taxpayers, 2024$905.1M assessed, 35.45% of the parish total
Port ACFR Table 7 (Assessor data): Phillips 66 $334.0M, CITGO $115.1M, SASOL $112.3M, Westlake US 2 $79.0M, Lake Charles LNG $57.3M, Excel Paralubes $55.2M, Golden Nugget $47.7M, Westlake Chemical $39.6M, Penn Entertainment $32.5M, Firestone $32.4M. Most of the plants are outside city limits.
Recent home salesMedian $228,450 (134 'Lake Charles' sales, 1-28 Oct 2026)
Clerk of Court residential sales list (last 200 sales parish-wide); the 'Lake Charles' label is the sale city as listed, which may include unincorporated areas with a Lake Charles address. Highest $2.5M.
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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 own the city's biggest blocks of land: the City (1,785 acres), the Port (1,112 acres, including the ground under both lakefront casino resorts), the Police Jury (594), the School Board (469), the State (494) and the Chennault airport authority (413). The largest private holders are a family partnership with more than 1,400 acres of mostly undeveloped land in the south of the city, and PBA Properties LLC et al with 1,130 acres. Figures are from the parish GIS layer (November 2026) for the 53,388 parcels with the Lake Charles city ward code 3L. Acres are computed from the parcel polygons. The layer has no values, and names longer than 30 characters are cut off.
| Name | Type | Parcels and acres in the city (ward 3L) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Lake Charles Under six spellings ('LAKE CHARLES CITY OF' 468 parcels, 1,440 acres; 'CITY OF LAKE CHARLES, THE' 233.6 acres; others). The largest is a 708.9-acre assessment at 4300 Mallard Cove Dr (43 parcels in sections 1, 2, 10 and 11 of T10S R8W, next to Chennault). Also 118 acres at 3210 Power Centre Pkwy, fire stations, parks (Goosport) and the Civic Center lakefront. Lake Charles Redevelopment Authority (truncated): 37 parcels, 10.6 acres. |
Government | 727 parcels, 270 assessments, 1,785 acresA |
| Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (Port of Lake Charles) In the city: a 470.8-acre assessment west of I-210 (the casino district), 356.0 acres at 5500 Swift Plant Rd, 151.7 acres at City Docks (Sallier St W) and 27.4 acres at 2025 Sam's Way. Region-wide figure and lease revenue ($20.4M, 43% of operating revenue, 2024) from the District's ACFR. |
Government | 104 parcels, 25 assessments, 1,112 acres in the city; about 5,500 acres region-wideB |
| Stream Family Limited Partnership (truncated on the layer) Mailed to a Lake Charles P.O. box. The largest piece is one 1,174.7-acre assessment of 58 parcels in sections 20, 28 and 29 of T10S R9W, in the south of the city. A related 'STREAM FAMILY TRUST LLC' holds 25 parcels, 72.7 acres. Several legal descriptions record earlier sales out of these tracts. Interests held in personal names are not listed here. |
Family / private | 86 parcels, 11 assessments, 1,415 acresA |
| PBA Properties LLC et al Mailed care of a Lake Charles property manager. The legal descriptions refer to former farm tracts ('JONES MALLOY AND FOSTER FARMS INC', 'FOSTER REAL ESTATE') in sections 20, 28, 29 and 32 of T10S R8W; one notes land conveyed to the City of Lake Charles. |
Private company | 38 parcels, 3 assessments, 1,130 acresA |
| Calcasieu Parish Police Jury 'CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY' 280 parcels (496.2 acres) plus 'CALCASIEU PARISH' and 'PARISH OF CALCASIEU'. Includes the government buildings at 901 and 1011 Lakeshore Dr. Calcasieu Parish Public Trust (truncated): another 25 parcels, 75.3 acres. |
Government | 307 parcels, 230 assessments, 594 acresA |
| State of Louisiana Mainly 'LOUISIANA STATE OF' (286.0 acres) and 'LOUISIANA, STATE OF' (168.3 acres); also Wildlife and Fisheries, Health and DOTD. SOWELA Technical Institute (state): 13 parcels, 145.8 acres. Most of McNeese State University's campus carries no owner on the layer: only 6 'McNeese State University' parcels (4.9 acres) and 2 'University of Louisiana System' parcels are named. |
Government | 91 parcels, 32 assessments, 494 acresA |
| Calcasieu Parish School Board The School Board is the parish's largest employer (4,900+, Port ACFR 2024). |
Government | 403 parcels, 82 assessments, 469 acresA |
| Chennault International Airport Authority The former Chennault Air Force Base, now an industrial airport. |
Government | 49 parcels, 15 assessments, 413 acresA |
| Housing Authority of the City of Lake Charles Under 'HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY*' (209 parcels, 128.0 acres), 'LAKE CHARLES HOUSING AUTHORITY' (65 parcels) and misspellings. |
Government | 277 parcels, 40 assessments, 139 acresA |
| Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern and BNSF railways Union Pacific Railroad Company 73 parcels (49.6 acres); Kansas City Southern Railway 9 parcels (4.8 acres); BNSF Railway 6 parcels (1.8 acres). Rights-of-way are mostly not parcels. |
Public company | 88 parcels, 56 acresA |
| Entergy Louisiana LLC The electric utility. AT&T Wireline Holdings LLC holds 9 parcels (11.0 acres); United States Postal Service and United States of America together hold 26 parcels (10.3 acres), including the federal building at 611 Pujo St. |
Public company | 117 parcels, 4 assessments, 48 acresA |
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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.
Lake Charles issued permits for 195 single-family homes ($35.5M) and 6 two-unit buildings in 2025, down from 440 houses and 526 apartment units in 2024 (Census Building Permits Survey); post-Laura rebuilding has tapered. The new-home market is local and regional: DSLD Homes, a Louisiana builder, holds the most lots, D.R. Horton is present on a small scale, and much of the land sits with subdivision-development LLCs. Figures are parcels held in each company's name in the city ward on the parish layer (lots and unsold homes, not homes built); no league table of Lake Charles builders was found. Builders whose names are a person's name are left out.
| Name | Type | Parcels held in the city (ward 3L) |
|---|---|---|
| DSLD Homes LLC The largest builder holding in the city. |
Private company | 163 parcels (25.7 acres)A |
| Morganfield Property LLC / Morganfield Development LLC Developer of the Morganfield subdivision. Waterside II at Morganfield (owners' association, truncated) holds the common areas (44.8 acres). |
Developer | 159 + 15 parcelsA |
| Dionne Development LLC Other subdivision developers by lot count: Autumn Crest Development LLC (59), Walnut Grove Development LLC (55), Louise Landing Development Co (54), Audubon Place Development LLC (51), Southridge Estates LLC (41), Savannah Lakes Subdivision LLC (36). |
Developer | 78 parcels (14.9 acres)A |
| Manuel Builders LLC | Private company | 41 parcels (6.1 acres)A |
| Lake City Construction Inc | Private company | 30 parcels (3.7 acres)A |
| D.R. Horton, Inc. - Gulf Coast Roll name 'HORTON, D R INC - GULF COAST'. |
Public company | 21 parcels (3.6 acres)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Lake Charles's commercial wealth sits in two casino resorts, the refineries and LNG terminals outside the city, one Simon mall, apartment complexes and a large field of local rental LLCs. The roll published here gives owners and land area, not values; values below come from the Port's ACFR (parish-wide, assessed value, Assessor data) and the REIT filings.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (L'Auberge Lake Charles, leased to PENN Entertainment) GLPI Schedule III, 31 Dec 2025. PENN Entertainment ranked No. 9 parish taxpayer in 2024 ($32.5M assessed) and No. 5 Port customer ($3.48M). PNK (Lake Charles) LLC: 20 parcels, 29.8 acres on the roll. |
REIT | $325.6M gross carrying valueA |
| Golden Nugget Lake Charles Port ACFR Table 7, Assessor data; the resort is on land leased from the Port. 1,700+ employees. |
Private company | $47.7M assessed (2024, parish No. 7 taxpayer)A |
| Simon Property Group, L.P. 100% owned, fee and ground lease to 2040; $76.9M gross carrying value (2025 10-K). |
REIT | 717,956 sq ft (Prien Lake Mall)A |
| Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust (truncated) Parish layer. Home Depot U S A Inc holds a 10.1-acre parcel. |
Public company | 16 parcels, 4 assessments, 49.4 acresA |
| V J Investments LLC The largest number of separate assessments under one company name in the city, mostly single-lot residential parcels: the city's largest single-family rental holder by count on the layer. Next by assessments: RGWalk Development LLC (33), Telcom Properties LLC (25), Hanton LLC (24), Legend Property Investments (24). |
Private company | 100 assessments, 123 parcels, 18.0 acresA |
| Apartment owners Parish layer, entity names as shown (some truncated). |
Private company | Cottages at the Power Centre (132 parcels, 35.3 acres); Claire Gardens (66 parcels, 43.5 acres); Place Vendome Apt Homes LLC (46 parcels, 12.0 acres); Gates at McNeese LLC (22.4 acres); Nelson Pointe Apartment Homes (18.0 acres); Passco Watervue DST (17.1 acres)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 owns the Golden Nugget's buildings and improvements: the Port's ACFR names the land lessor only; no filing for the operating company was opened.
- Whether Louisiana assesses the casino improvements to the lessee under a separate assessment not shown on the GIS layer, since the layer shows the Port as owner of the 470.8-acre casino tract.
- The exact full name behind truncated owner names (the layer cuts at 30 characters), e.g. 'SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL *' and 'STREAM FAMILY LIMITED PARTNER*'.
- Parcel values: the GIS layer has none; the Assessor's own search (reCAPTCHA) was not queried and its map viewer sits behind an 'I Agree' disclaimer that was not clicked.
- McNeese State University's campus land: most campus parcels carry no owner on the layer.
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Sources
- Parcels (HubLayers/Parcels FeatureServer layer 0): 'Representation of property boundary lines of all properties for the entirety of Calcasieu Parish', 167,981 parcels with owner name and mailing address — Calcasieu Parish Police Jury GIS · openA
- City Limits (HubLayers/City_Limits): Lake Charles 50.39 sq mi of the parish's six municipal polygons — Calcasieu Parish Police Jury GIS · openA
- Calcasieu Parish Assessor web site (duties: 'maintain the ownership inventory of each parcel'; parcel search; GIS disclaimer page) — Calcasieu Parish Assessor · openA
- Online Records / Search Services (online index of mortgages and conveyances; subscription fees updated 1 July 2025, '$1 per page') — Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court · openA
- Residential Home Sales in Calcasieu Parish (sale date, address, price, city; latest 200 sales shown, to 28 Oct 2026) — Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court · openA
- Fees & Costs (by department), as of 1 July 2025 — Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court · openA
- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., Form 10-K for 2025 (L'Auberge Lake Charles in the PENN/Amended Pinnacle Master Lease; Schedule III land $14,831K, buildings $310,877K, acquired 4/28/2016) — Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, year ended 31 Dec 2024 (casino land leases, 5,500 acres, City Docks, principal taxpayers, top customers, principal employers) — Louisiana Legislative Auditor (public reports) · openA
- Simon Property Group, Form 10-K for 2025 (Prien Lake Mall: fee and ground lease 2040, 100%, 717,956 sq ft; Schedule III) — Simon Property Group (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- PENN Entertainment, Form 10-K for 2025 (L'Auberge Lake Charles: 70,000 sq ft gaming, 1,100 machines, 81 tables, 995 rooms; 54 acres owned, 235 acres leased) — PENN Entertainment (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place files for the South Region, 2024 and 2025 (Lake Charles city) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA