McAllen, Texas
McAllen's owners of record are free in the Hidalgo CAD parcel roll as RGV 9-1-1 republishes it: the City holds the most land, Simon owns La Plaza Mall, CTO bought Palms Crossing for $81.6M in 2026, and HCA and Universal Health Realty own the two big hospitals - but no public record states what most property sold for.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 10 sources · 7 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-21
Can you find out who owns it?
Texas keeps no public title register; ownership is read from the county appraisal district. McAllen lies in Hidalgo County, where the Hidalgo County Appraisal District's own site is a JavaScript property-search portal - but the regional RGV 9-1-1 GIS server (gis.rgv911.org) republishes the district's parcel layer as a free, unauthenticated map service naming the owner of record, mailing address, situs and legal description of some 334,000 parcels countywide. Its value, deed and acreage fields are empty, so values come from the City's audited report. Deeds are recorded by the Hidalgo County Clerk: copies $1 a page, $5 to certify and $5 a search. No record holds a price: Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Hidalgo County Appraisal District parcel layer republished by RGV 9-1-1 GIS); deed copies $1.00 per page, $5.00 per certification and $5.00 per search (Hidalgo County Clerk fee schedule)
Bulk ownership dataRGV 9-1-1 GIS (gis.rgv911.org) ArcGIS MapServer 'RGV911_Web_Apps_MIL1', layer 7 'Hidalgo Parcels' - 334,098 parcel polygons countywide, 331,009 with Hidalgo CAD owner name, mailing address, situs, legal description and property ID; value, deed-date, acreage and taxing-unit fields are present but empty; free and unauthenticated, 2,000 records per query; no licence or copyright 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Plaza Mall 2200 S 10th St, McAllen 1,323,450 sq ft GLA |
Retail | Simon Property Group (Simon Property Group-McAllen No 2; La Plaza Mall LLC) 100% Simon's 2025 10-K property table: La Plaza, McAllen TX, 'Fee and Ground Lease (2040)', a ground lease covering less than 50% of the acreage, 100.0% owned, built 1976, 99.2% leased, 1,323,450 sq ft; anchors Macy's, Dillard's, JCPenney, Primark. Schedule III carries it at $306.7M gross cost (book cost, not a price). On the roll the 47.9-acre mall lot (La Plaza Ph 1A Lot 1B) stands in the name Simon Property Group-McAllen No 2 and a 10.1-acre lot in La Plaza Mall LLC, mailed to 225 W Washington St, Indianapolis; the Dillard's and Macy's pads are held by Dillard Texas South LLC and Macy's Mall Real Estate LLC. The City's ACFR ranks Simon McAllen's largest taxpayer ($160.1M taxable, 2025). |
REIT | —B |
| Palms Crossing 3300-3400 W Expressway 83, McAllen about 399,000 sq ft |
Retail | CTO Realty Growth, Inc. (Tomoka26 Palms LLC) 100% CTO Realty Growth's 10-Q for the quarter to 30 Jun 2026: 'Palms Crossing, an open-air shopping center located in McAllen, TX, for a purchase price of $81.6 million', about 399,000 sq ft, 98% occupied at acquisition, 4.5 years weighted remaining lease term; the XBRL dates the acquisition February 2026. On the roll seven accounts on McAllen Convention Center subdivision lots (about 48.8 acres) stand in the name 'Tomoka26 Palms LLC & CTO Realty Growth Inc', mailed to 1140 N Williamson Blvd. The FY2025 ACFR still lists the former owner entity, Palm Crossing Town Center LLC, as the 8th-largest taxpayer ($38.3M). Owning entity's name from the roll (s1). |
REIT | $81.6M 2026-02 Purchase price stated in CTO's 10-Q for Q2 2026; total acquisition cost $81.8M including capitalized costs. B |
| McAllen Medical Center (South Texas Health System McAllen) 301 W Expressway 83, McAllen 16.05-acre main account; 431 beds; 8 floors |
Institutional | Universal Health Realty Income Trust 100% UHT's 2025 10-K lists McAllen Medical Center, McAllen TX, acute care, 100% ownership, as 'Real estate assets owned by us and leased to subsidiaries of Universal Health Services'; the lease runs to December 2026 at $5,485,000 minimum rent, one 5-year renewal at existing rates, plus quarterly bonus rent. UHS's 10-K lists South Texas Health System McAllen, 431 beds, 'Leased' from the Trust. The roll carries the main account (McAllen Methodist Hospital Lot 1) in the name Universal Health Services: owner of record and filing owner differ, and the filing is followed. UHT also bought the 79,500 sq ft McAllen Doctor's Center (~$7.6M, Q3 2023). |
REIT | —B |
| Rio Grande Regional Hospital 101 E Ridge Rd, McAllen 13.6-acre main account; about 31 acres in all |
Institutional | Columbia Rio Grande Healthcare, L.P. (HCA Healthcare) The roll names 'Rio Grande Regional Hospital' on the 13.62-acre McAllen Community Hospital Lot 1 at 101 E Ridge Rd and further lots on S Cynthia St and the Expressway, and 'Columbia Rio Grande Healthcare LP' on the Med Plex South lot and on unit after unit of the McAllen Medical Plaza condominiums at 222 E Ridge Rd; 37 accounts on about 31 acres, all mailed to PO Box 80610. HCA Healthcare's 2025 Exhibit 21 lists both Columbia Rio Grande Healthcare, L.P. and Rio Grande Regional Hospital, Inc. as subsidiaries. The City's ACFR ranks 'Rio Grande Regional Hospital' its 3rd-largest taxpayer ($87.8M, 2025). Owner from the roll; parent from the filing. |
Public company | —B |
| McAllen International Airport (formerly McAllen Miller) 2500 S Bicentennial Blvd, McAllen about 353 acres (one GIS polygon) |
Civic | City of McAllen Four accounts in the name City of McAllen (Hidalgo Canal Co-MC lots 3 and 4, Block 6, situs 2300-2500 S Main St and 2500 S Bicentennial) share one 352.8-acre parcel polygon on the layer. The City's FY2025 ACFR runs the airport as its own enterprise fund (McAllen International Airport Fund) with runway, taxiway and terminal projects and a $7.1M rescue-and-fire station replacement. Acreage is the GIS polygon area, not a deed figure. |
Government | —A |
| McAllen Convention Center 700 Convention Center Blvd, McAllen about 69 acres on four City lots |
Civic | City of McAllen The roll names City of McAllen on McAllen Convention Center subdivision Lot 11A (21.2 ac, 700 Convention Center Blvd) and Lots 12, 5, 4 and 13 (20.9, 12.6, 8.3 and 5.1 ac). The adjoining hotel lot (Lot 8, 3.84 ac, 701 S Ware Rd) stands in the name McAllen Convention Center Hotel LLLP; Palms Crossing occupies Lots 1-2 and 8A-9A of the same subdivision. The ACFR carries a McAllen Convention Center Fund. |
Government | —A |
| Chase Neuhaus Tower (tallest building, 17 floors) 200 S 10th St, McAllen 9.10-acre account · 17 floors |
Office | 1547 CSR-McAllen LP Wikipedia: 'The Chase Bank Tower (officially the Neuhaus Tower) is the tallest building in McAllen', built 1980, 17 floors. The roll names 1547 CSR-McAllen LP as owner of the account at 200 S 10th St (McAllen State Bank Lot A, 9.10 acres by GIS polygon), mailed to an out-of-state address (96 Freneau Ave). No filing opened states who stands behind the partnership or what it paid. |
Private company | —B |
| Bentsen Tower (11 floors; federal court) 1701 W Expressway 83, McAllen |
Office | EMP Holdings LLC Wikipedia ranks Bentsen Tower third-tallest (11 floors) and places the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, McAllen Division at Suite 1011. The roll names EMP Holdings LLC on Quincy Lots 6, 7 and 12-15 at 1701 W Expwy 83 (0.98 acre), mailed to 2401 E Expressway 83. The federal government's own McAllen holdings are separate: 'United States Federal Bldg' at 301 S Main St and two 'United States District Court' accounts. |
Private company | —B |
| South Texas College, Pecan campus 3201 W Pecan Blvd, McAllen about 193 acres on 24 accounts in the City |
Institutional | South Texas College The roll names South Texas College on 24 accounts inside the City, about 193 acres, mailed to PO Box 9701 / 3201 Pecan Blvd: the Pecan campus north expansion (37.8 ac), Hammond subdivision Lot 10 Block 2 (31.1 ac at 3201 W Pecan) and Lot 8 (20.9 ac), and the 33.5-acre Technology campus at 3700 Military Hwy. Wikipedia: more than 27,000 students on five campuses; 'The main campus is in McAllen.' |
Government | —A |
| McAllen Foreign Trade Zone 6401 S 33rd St / Moorefield Rd, McAllen about 342 acres on 12 accounts |
Industrial | McAllen Foreign Trade Zone Inc The roll names McAllen Foreign Trade Zone Inc on 12 accounts, about 342 acres by GIS polygon, among them Moore Field Tract 2 (198.9 ac), the 76.1-acre Intermodal Lot 1 at 3001 Formosa Ave and Rio Bravo Tract lots by the levee. The FY2016 column of the ACFR's taxpayer table lists McAllen Foreign Trade Zone 9th ($19.8M). ownerType 'government' reflects its public trade-zone function; its corporate status was not read from a filing - treat as tier B. |
Government | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The appraisal layer republished by RGV 9-1-1 carries no values, so value figures come from the City's FY2025 ACFR, whose statistical tables are sourced to the Hidalgo County Appraisal District; counts and acreage are from the layer (edited to 14 Aug 2026), restricted to parcels whose centroid lies inside the City's municipal-boundary layer. Values are appraised taxable values, not prices.
Net taxable value, City of McAllen (2024 roll, FY2025)$14.88B
Residential $9.99B, commercial $5.39B, industrial $0.20B, minerals $0.12B, other $1.33B, less $2.15B exempt. Up from $8.44B on the 2015 roll. City FY2025 ACFR, Schedule 7.
Largest taxpayer$160.1M - Simon Property Group (La Plaza Mall)
1.08% of the City's taxable value; the ten largest together hold $707.0M, 4.76%. Next: AEP Texas Central $93.3M, Rio Grande Regional Hospital $87.8M, Universal Health Services $80.0M, Big Sky Commercial Property $74.1M. ACFR Schedule 9, 2025.
Parcels inside the City53,100 accounts on 50,299 polygons, about 32,960 acres
Of 334,098 parcel features countywide on the layer. GIS polygon area, counted once per polygon; streets and other unparcelled land excluded.
Downtown (McAllen Addition)507 accounts on about 113 acres
Accounts whose legal description begins 'McAllen Addition'. Largest holders: Affordable Homes of South Texas Inc (21), the City of McAllen (19), Titus Development Ltd and Kalifa Real Estate LLC (6 each).
Sale pricesNone on any record opened
The layer's deed and value fields are empty; Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure. The one price in this record (Palms Crossing, $81.6M) comes from the buyer's SEC filing.
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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.
Inside the City of McAllen the largest holder is the City itself, followed by the federal government's wildlife-refuge and border tracts along the Rio Grande at the city's southern tip. The largest private acreage is undeveloped and farm land in the north and south-west, held by land partnerships; Cascade Real Estate Operating LP alone holds about 1,076 acres. Counts are from the Hidalgo CAD parcel layer as RGV 9-1-1 republishes it (edited to 14 Aug 2026), restricted to parcels whose centroid falls inside the City's municipal-boundary layer on the same server: 53,100 accounts on 50,299 distinct polygons, about 32,960 acres. Acreage is GIS polygon area counted once per polygon, not the deed acreage; condominium units share one polygon, so condo-heavy owners are counted by accounts.
| Name | Type | Hidalgo CAD roll via RGV 9-1-1 GIS, City of McAllen |
|---|---|---|
| City of McAllen Under 'City of McAllen' and 'City of McAllen A Municipal Corporation'. The 353-acre airport polygon, the S Bryan Rd 'bridge corridor' tracts toward Anzalduas (107 ac), the 171-acre S Ware Rd tract, 101 acres at Texas A&M Tres Lagos (6200 Shary Rd), the convention-center lots, Westside Park, Quinta Mazatlan and the youth baseball complex. |
Government | 517 accounts, about 3,240 acresA |
| United States of America (US Fish & Wildlife Service; IBWC; federal buildings) US Fish & Wildlife Service: 7 accounts, about 1,041 acres of Porcion 58 river tracts (431, 213 and 161 ac), plus an 85-acre 'USA for Lower RGV Nat'l' [wildlife refuge] tract. Further 'United States' accounts include 48.5 acres at the Anzalduas Bridge Center, an IBWC levee right of way, the federal building at 301 S Main and two District Court accounts. |
Government | 29 accounts, about 1,240 acresA |
| Cascade Real Estate Operating LP (and Cascade Real Estate Operating No 2 LP) Mostly Shary subdivision farm tracts of 37-89 acres along S Bentsen Rd and west of Idela Ave, mailed to 4320 University Blvd - the same mailing address the roll gives Big Sky Commercial Property, the City's 5th-largest taxpayer. The roll does not state who owns either partnership; no inference is drawn from the shared address. |
Private company | 54 accounts, about 1,076 acresA |
| McAllen Independent School District Under five spellings (McAllen ISD, McAllen Independent School District, McAllen Ind Sch Dist, ...). |
Government | 42 accounts, about 558 acresA |
| QOT Inc Hidalgo Canal Co lots off S 10th St in the south of the city, several described in the legal as 'all in floodway' (133, 98 and 70 ac). |
Private company | 8 accounts, about 505 acresA |
| McAllen Foreign Trade Zone Inc Moore Field Tract 2 (199 ac), the 76-acre intermodal lot and Rio Bravo Tract lots in the south industrial district. |
Government | 12 accounts, about 342 acresB |
| Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 Drainage ditches and detention land under six spellings. |
Government | 66 accounts, about 203 acresA |
| South Texas College Pecan and Technology campuses. |
Government | 24 accounts, about 193 acresA |
| Hidalgo County irrigation and water improvement districts Canal rights of way of Hidalgo County Irrigation Districts No. 2 and No. 3, Water District No. 1 and the Water & Improvement District. |
Government | 62 accounts, about 178 acresA |
| Sharyland Independent School District Sharyland ISD's campuses inside the City's western limits. |
Government | 5 accounts, about 167 acresA |
| Wonderful Citrus II LLC Rio Grande Dev Co Lots 1, 6, 7 & 12 on N Ware Rd (140.81 ac net on the legal), mailed to 4050 7th Standard Rd. |
Private company | 1 account, about 161 acresA |
| Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority Right-of-way parcels. |
Government | 23 accounts, about 95 acresA |
| State of Texas / Texas Department of Transportation; UT System Board of Regents State land is small inside the City. The UT System Board of Regents holds 7 accounts (about 57 acres). |
Government | 5 accounts, 57 acres; 7 accounts, 57 acresA |
| Housing authorities The county authority's 50.01-acre (legal) tract at 100 E Jasmine Ave; the City authority mails to 1200 N 25th St. |
Government | Hidalgo County Housing Authority: 1 account, 46.8 acres; Housing Authority of the City of McAllen: 6 accounts, about 29 acresA |
| Utilities and railroads AEP Texas Central Co is also the City's 2nd-largest taxpayer ($93.3M taxable, FY2025 ACFR) - mostly network value, not land. Sharyland Water Supply Corp holds 6 accounts, about 50 acres. |
Public company | AEP Texas: 10 accounts, about 24 acres; Missouri Pacific Railroad Company: 4 accounts, about 12 acres; Border Pacific Railroad: 1 accountA |
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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.
McAllen permitted 1,504 new housing units in 2025 (Census Building Permits Survey): 786 single-family houses valued at $184.8M, 190 units in duplexes, 377 in 3-4-unit buildings and 151 in 5+-unit buildings - an unusually large share of small multiplexes. No builder league table covers the Rio Grande Valley, so builders are ranked here by the lots and units they hold on the Hidalgo CAD roll inside the City (August 2026 layer): that is inventory not yet sold - finished homes and vacant lots in active subdivisions - not starts or closings. Most are regional private builders; the largest operates through one LLC per city.
| Name | Type | Accounts held inside the City (roll, Aug 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Esperanza Homes (Esperanza Homes McAllen LLC, Mission LLC, Edinburg LLC) Esperanza Homes McAllen LLC 216 (Anaqua at Tres Lagos Ph 1: 105; Aqualina at Tres Lagos Ph 4: 44; Las Brisas Ph 1: 40), Esperanza Homes Mission LLC 73 (Harvest Coves Ph 1-2) and Esperanza Homes Edinburg LLC 32 (Villas at Ware) - all inside McAllen's limits despite the names. |
Private company | 321 accountsA |
| Anaiah Builders LLC 53 of them in the Medici subdivision. |
Private company | 56 accountsA |
| Affordable Homes of South Texas Inc Under two spellings: 19 McAllen Addition (downtown) lots and 16 at Stonebriar at Trinity Oaks. Separately, McAllen Housing Development Corp holds 52 accounts, 49 of them in Vine Terrace. |
Private company | 49 accountsA |
| Hakes Brothers MATX LLC Taylor Creek Villages (30 lots), mailed to 425 S Teshor Blvd, Ste 204. |
Private company | 30 accountsA |
| Velvet Stone Construction LLC All in Pioneer Estates. |
Private company | 29 accountsA |
| Quintanilla's Construction LLC 23 in Quinta Real. |
Private company | 28 accountsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Retail dominates McAllen's commercial base: the City's two largest taxpayers in FY2025 were Simon (La Plaza Mall) and AEP's power network, and four of the top ten are shopping-centre owners. Industrial and logistics space sits in the south, around the Foreign Trade Zone and the Sharyland business parks by the Anzalduas and Hidalgo bridges. Figures are 2025 taxable values from the City's FY2025 ACFR (source Hidalgo CAD) and holdings from the roll.
| Name | Type | 2025 taxable value (ACFR) / roll holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Property Group La Plaza Mall, 100% owned (2025 10-K). Simon also owns Rio Grande Valley Premium Outlets in Mercedes, outside McAllen. |
REIT | $160.1M taxable (1st); La Plaza, 1,323,450 sq ftA |
| Big Sky Commercial Property Warehouse lots in Sharyland Service Center Nos. 1 and 4 and Sharyland Business Park along S International Pkwy and George McVay Dr (10-17 acres each), plus Citrus Grove Plaza on the Expressway; mailed to 4320 University Blvd. |
Private company | $74.1M taxable (5th); 14 accounts, about 90 acresB |
| CTO Realty Growth Previous owner Palm Crossing Town Center LLC was the 8th-largest taxpayer ($38.3M) in FY2025. |
REIT | Palms Crossing, about 399,000 sq ft; bought Feb 2026 for $81.6MA |
| DHR Real Estate Management LLC / DHR Real Estate Partners Ltd Renaissance Center lots on E Dove Ave and Zinnia Ave and medical-office condominium units on Nolana and Savannah, mailed to PO Box 3293, the same box as Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Ltd. |
Private company | $36.3M taxable (9th); 53 accounts, about 66 acresB |
| Shops at 29 Ltd Shops at 29, 2608-2808 US Expressway 83. |
Private company | $34.5M taxable (10th); 5 accounts, about 23.6 acresB |
| Weingarten joint ventures (Las Tiendas, Nolana, Northcross, 1815 S 10th) Weingarten Las Tiendas JV (5 accounts, 35.3 acres incl. Rooth Road Center), Weingarten Nolana JV, Northcross JV and 1815 S 10th JV, all mailed to 500 North Broadway Suite 201. The FY2016 taxpayer table listed Weingarten Realty Investors 8th and Weingarten Las Tiendas JV 10th; who now holds these joint ventures was not established from a filing. |
REIT | 15 accounts, about 38 acresB |
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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.
- Appraised values per account: the RGV 9-1-1 copy of the Hidalgo CAD layer has its market, assessed, land and improvement value fields empty, and Hidalgo CAD's own portal and token-protected service were not used. No 'highest-valued parcel' is stated.
- Sale prices: Hidalgo CAD may hold sale data, but nothing opened published any; the layer's deed-date and deed-number fields are empty.
- McAllen City Hall (1300 Houston Ave) could not be matched to an account on the layer; it is not listed.
- McAllen Medical Center: the roll names Universal Health Services, the UHT and UHS 10-Ks say UHT owns the real estate and leases it to UHS to December 2026. UHS's 10-K also tags a 2026 subsequent event for the hospital that was not read.
- Chase Neuhaus Tower: who stands behind 1547 CSR-McAllen LP, and when and for what it bought the building, were not established.
- Weingarten joint ventures (Las Tiendas, Nolana, Northcross): the current parent of these JVs was not established from a filing.
- Cascade Real Estate Operating LP and Big Sky Commercial Property share a mailing address on the roll; their owners are not stated anywhere opened and no connection is asserted.
- McAllen Foreign Trade Zone Inc: its corporate form and ownership were not read from a filing; ownerType 'government' rests on its public trade-zone function.
- Anzalduas International Bridge and the McAllen-Hidalgo bridge: the City runs both as enterprise funds (ACFR), but the bridge structures lie outside the City's limits and are not counted here.
- Hidalgo County Clerk deed records were not searched, so no instrument behind any owner of record was read.
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Sources
- Hidalgo Parcels (layer 7, RGV911_Web_Apps_MIL1 MapServer) — RGV 9-1-1 GIS (gis.rgv911.org); data from the Hidalgo County Appraisal District · openA
- City of McAllen Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended 30 Sep 2025 — City of McAllen Department of Finance · openA
- 2024 County Clerk's Fee Schedule — Hidalgo County Clerk · openA
- Simon Property Group 2025 Form 10-K (property table; Schedule III) — Simon Property Group, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- CTO Realty Growth Form 10-Q, quarter ended 30 Jun 2026 — CTO Realty Growth, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Universal Health Realty Income Trust 2025 Form 10-K — Universal Health Realty Income Trust via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Universal Health Services 2025 Form 10-K — Universal Health Services, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- HCA Healthcare 2025 Form 10-K, Exhibit 21 (subsidiaries) — HCA Healthcare, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- McAllen, Texas — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, places, South Region, annual 2025 (so2025a.txt) — US Census Bureau · openA