Michigan City, Indiana
Who owns Michigan City, Indiana: the State's copy of the LaPorte County roll names the owner of all 15,066 city parcels, led by Blue Chip Casino, the Lighthouse Place outlets and a Franciscan Alliance campus downtown.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 10 sources · 6 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Indiana records title by deed with the county recorder. LaPorte County's own website and its Beacon property search were closed to us, but the county must send its full assessment roll to the State each year, and the State's Indiana Gateway gives that file away free with no registration: owner, owner's mailing address, property class, assessed land and improvement value, acreage and last transfer date for every parcel. The file carries no sale price. Prices sit in the State's sales disclosure search, which goes back to July 2008 but needs a CAPTCHA for every search. Recording a deed costs $25 under state law.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Indiana Gateway Real Property file for LaPorte County). Recording $25 per deed or other instrument, $55 per mortgage, copies $1 per page (IC 36-2-7-10)
Bulk ownership dataIndiana Gateway 'Property Files' > Real Property > LaPorte > 2025 pay 2026 (realparcel_LaPorte_46_2025p2026.zip, 64,580 parcels county-wide, fixed-width: owner, mailing address, class, tax district, assessed land/improvement/total, acreage, transfer date). Free, no registration; no licence stated
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 777 Blue Chip Dr, Michigan City 65,000 sq ft casino floor |
Hotel | Blue Chip Casino, LLC The roll names Blue Chip Casino Llc on parcel 46-01-28-105-073.000-022 (34.374 acres, class 469), assessed $82,500,000 (land $3,257,400, improvements $79,242,600) for 2025 pay 2026, the highest in the city. Boyd Gaming's 2025 10-K lists Blue Chip Casino, LLC dba Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa (Indiana) as a subsidiary, gives the property 486 rooms, 1,307 slots and 22 tables, acquired 1999, and calls it a dockside riverboat casino. Blue Chip is not among the sites the 10-K says are leased. Two small lots on E 2nd St are also in the LLC's name. |
Public company | —B |
| Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets 600 Wabash St, Michigan City 444,045 sq ft |
Retail | F/C Michigan City Development LLC 100% fee interest (Simon Property Group) The roll names F/C Michigan City Development Llc, mailing to 225 W Washington St, Indianapolis, on the 46.06-acre outlet parcel (46-01-29-329-007.000-022), assessed $36,990,900 (land $5,757,500), transfer recorded 4 Jan 2001. Two small parcels stand in Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets LLC. Simon Property Group's 2025 10-K lists Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets, Michigan City, as Fee, 100.0%, acquired 2004, 87.4% leased, 444,045 sq ft, with no mortgage in Schedule III (land $6.63M, gross carrying amount $116.25M). The roll entity's tie to Simon comes from the 10-K, so tier B. |
REIT | —B |
| Michigan City Generating Station 101 Wabash St, Michigan City |
Industrial | Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC The roll names Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (mailing to Columbus, Ohio) on the lakefront plant parcel at 101 Wabash, class 820, assessed $7,653,800. NiSource's 2025 10-K lists Michigan City, Michigan City, IN, steam-coal, 455 MW, among NIPSCO's owned generating facilities and says it intends to retire the coal unit by the end of 2028. Wikipedia notes the plant's cooling tower is visible for miles. NIPSCO holds 174 parcels in the city in all (see landowners). |
Public company | —B |
| Indiana State Prison Woodlawn Ave (parcel 46-01-31-276-001.000-022), Michigan City |
Institutional | State of Indiana Wikipedia places the maximum-security Indiana Department of Correction prison (opened 1860) at 41.70306, -86.91722. On the State's 2024 parcel layer that point falls inside parcel 46-01-31-276-001.000-022, which the roll lists as State Of Indiana, c/o INDOT Real Estate Division, 99.7987 acres, class 610, exempt at $0. The roll gives no street number and does not name the prison, so the match rests on the coordinates; tier B. |
Government | —B |
| Franciscan Alliance campus, downtown (301 W Homer St) 301 W Homer St, Michigan City |
Institutional | Franciscan Alliance Inc The roll names Franciscan Alliance Inc (Mishawaka) on 301 W Homer St, several blocks of the South and 2nd South Additions, class 685, assessed $17,972,100, third-highest in the city. Its 12 city parcels total $23.0M. Franciscan Health Michigan City's hospital off I-94 (Wikipedia) is at 3500 Franciscan Way: the roll puts that 88.0-acre, $92,739,400 parcel in tax district 46046, Coolspring Township outside the city, so it is not counted here. The roll does not state the downtown building's current use. |
Institution | —B |
| Michigan City City Hall 100 E Michigan Blvd, Michigan City |
Civic | City of Michigan City The roll lists 'City Of Mich City' at 100 E Michigan Blvd, all of Block 9 of Elston's Original Survey plus half of vacated Franklin St, 2.537 acres, class 640, exempt at $0. The City's other parcels mail to this address. |
Government | —A |
| Michigan City Municipal Airport 1300 E Hwy 212, Michigan City |
Civic | City of Michigan City The roll's largest City parcel: 1300 E Hwy 212, 159.48 acres, 'City Of Michigan City City Controller - City Hall', exempt. Hangars on it are carried as separate 'improvement on leased ground' records for private owners. The Board of Aviation Commissioners of the Michigan City Municipal Airport (mailing 1300 IN 212) holds six more parcels, 46.3 acres, including 37.5 acres on E Michigan Blvd. |
Government | —A |
| Dunes Plaza 100-360 W Hwy 20, Michigan City |
Retail | Dunes Plaza SPE LLC The roll names Dunes Plaza SPE LLC, mailing to N Clark St, Chicago, on 16.152 acres (class 426), assessed $9,459,700 (land $903,500), transfer recorded 9 Aug 2017. The roll carries no price; the State's sales-disclosure search that would give one sits behind a CAPTCHA. |
Private company | —A |
| Marquette Mall site S Franklin St at US 20 (3901-4073 S Franklin), Michigan City |
Retail | Shunli 888 LLC largest of several parcels (18.072 acres) Wikipedia says Marquette Mall, the city's only indoor mall (1967), closed its interior in 2017 and the site has been the subject of redevelopment efforts. The roll now splits it: Shunli 888 LLC holds the 18.072-acre parcel addressed 'MARQUETTE MALL', assessed $1,928,200, transfer 21 May 2024; Marquette East LLC (c/o a Los Angeles firm) 4.25 acres, $732,100, 18 Jul 2023; TF Michigan City IN LLC 11.87 acres at 3901 Franklin St, $1,281,600, 18 Mar 2019; Kabelin MC LLC 7.285 acres. No price is on the roll. |
Private company | —B |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Values are total assessed value (land plus improvements) on the LaPorte County Real Property file the county filed with the DLGF for 2025 pay 2026, read 1 Nov 2026 from Indiana Gateway: 15,066 parcels in the City of Michigan City's two tax districts (46022 Michigan Township, 46009 Coolspring Township). 1,118 parcels, mostly public, carry $0. Franciscan Health's hospital on Franciscan Way ($92.7M) is in unincorporated Coolspring Township and is left out.
Highest assessed parcel$82,500,000
777 Blue Chip Dr, Blue Chip Casino LLC, 34.374 acres (land $3,257,400). LaPorte County roll via Indiana Gateway, 2025 pay 2026.
All parcels, City of Michigan City$2.47 billion
$2,471,297,900 across 15,066 parcels, about 8,363 acres stated. Residential classes $1.756B (11,875 parcels); commercial $499.6M (1,120); industrial $93.9M (211); utility $25.3M (419); exempt $94.7M (1,386). Same source.
Second-highest: Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets$36,990,900
600 Wabash St, F/C Michigan City Development LLC, 46.06 acres; land alone $5,757,500, about $125,000 an acre. Same source.
Land benchmark, casino siteabout $94,800 per acre
Blue Chip's land assessment of $3,257,400 on 34.374 acres. Same source.
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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 limits (tax districts 46009 and 46022) the big holders are public: the City and its boards, the federal government's Indiana Dunes land, the school corporation and the State. NIPSCO and four railroads follow, then a nature-conservation land trust, the Catholic diocese and a farm-preserve institute. Exempt public parcels mostly carry $0 assessed value, and many platted lots carry 0 acres, so acreage understates holdings. Counts group each owner's name variants on the LaPorte County roll for 2025 pay 2026.
| Name | Type | City of Michigan City tax districts, LaPorte County roll (2025 pay 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Michigan City (incl. Board of Aviation Commissioners, Redevelopment Authority and Commission, Sanitary District, Port Authority, Cemetery Regents) 530 parcels stand in the City under its plain name (634 acres), led by the 159.48-acre airport parcel at 1300 E Hwy 212 and 118.49 acres at 4000 E Michigan Blvd. The Sanitary District holds 46 parcels (98.1 acres), the Redevelopment Authority and Commission 47 (37.8 acres), the Board of Aviation Commissioners 6 (46.3 acres) and the Port Authority 12 (5.7 acres). |
Government | 670 parcels, about 1,034 acres statedA |
| United States of America (Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; U.S. Coast Guard) 272.03 acres on Logan Ave stand in 'United States Of America Ind Dunes National Lakesh[ore]'; 16.45 acres on W Pahs Rd and a Coast Guard shoreline lot make up the rest. Wikipedia notes the eastern edge of Indiana Dunes National Park lies in the city. |
Government | 4 parcels, 288.5 acresA |
| Michigan City Area Schools (incl. School Building Corporation and Board of School Trustees) The largest are 42.69 acres on Springland Ave, 33.55 acres at 8466 W Pahs Rd and 33.55 acres at 2001 Springland Ave (in the name of Michigan City School Building Corporation). All exempt at $0. |
Government | 60 parcels, about 296 acresA |
| Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (NIPSCO) Includes 53 parcels under the name 'NIPSCO'. The generating station at 101 Wabash ($7.65M) and 31.24 acres in the 'Basin Area' are the largest. NiSource's 10-K reports NIPSCO as its Indiana utility. |
Public company | 174 parcels, about 274 acres, $16.9M assessedA |
| State of Indiana (INDOT, Department of Natural Resources, Armory Board, Adjutant General) The 99.80-acre parcel c/o INDOT on Woodlawn Ave holds the Indiana State Prison (see marquee). DNR's Division of Nature Preserves holds about 90 acres off Meer Rd and Hwy 212, and 6.98 acres of harbour channel by Trail Creek. All exempt at $0. |
Government | 117 parcels, about 221 acresA |
| Nature-conservation land trust (non-profit corporation; its name is a person's full name and is withheld) A regional nature-conservation non-profit corporation holds 85.90 acres at 8364 Meer Rd and 65.69 acres on Warnke Rd among its six city parcels, assessed $1.22M in all. Its corporate name is that of a private individual, so it is not printed here. |
Institution | 6 parcels, 205.4 acresA |
| Tryon Farm Institute Inc and Shaggy Dog Development LLC (Tryon Farm) Both hold land along Tryon Rd and Tryon Farm Ln on the city's west side, much of it class 557 or 699. The roll does not state any link between the two entities beyond location. |
Institution | 21 parcels, 123.9 acres (Institute); 11 parcels, 28.8 acres (Shaggy Dog)A |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary (parishes and the bishop's corporation) Includes 39.5 acres on Pahs Rd and 32.04 acres at 1000 Moore Rd (Notre Dame Parish), and 901 Buffalo St ($3.35M). The roll's owner lines carry individual bishops' names, which are left out here. |
Institution | 33 parcels, 96.1 acres, $11.9M assessedA |
| CSX Transportation Inc Rail corridor along Hwy 212 and Eastwood Rd. |
Public company | 38 parcels, 75.6 acresA |
| Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (South Shore Line) The commuter railway's district owns 22.9 acres on N Roeske Ave and its shop at 701 N Roeske Ave. The Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (freight) holds 28 more parcels, 12.0 acres. |
Government | 139 parcels, 43.2 acres, $4.24M assessedA |
| National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) Corridor parcels mailing to Washington, DC, transfers recorded 13 Apr 2023. Wikipedia says Amtrak stopped serving Michigan City in April 2022. |
Government | 20 parcels, 32.5 acresB |
| Housing Authority of the City of Michigan City Twelve-plus spellings of the name; holdings on Merrihill Dr, Ohio St, Crestwood Dr, Bies St and Brinkman Ave. Michigan City Housing Development Inc holds 19 more parcels. |
Government | 112 parcels, 10.2 acresA |
| Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana Contiguous lots on Franklin St, all transferred 23 Jun 2017. The roll gives no acreage for them. |
Government | 13 parcelsA |
| LaPorte County Mostly small lots including 302 W 8th St and 217 W Coolspring Ave. The County's main offices are in the City of La Porte, outside this record. |
Government | 18 parcels, about 1.2 acres statedA |
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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.
New building is sparse and done by local companies. No builder league table covers LaPorte County, and the roll carries no year-built field, so the figures below are each builder or developer company's parcel count on the 2025 pay 2026 roll, with the year of its latest recorded transfers. They show land held, not homes completed. The landlord side is more telling: no national single-family-rental REIT appears on the roll, but local LLCs hold dozens of houses each (Michigan City Rentals LLC 67, MI Real Estate LLC 34, ES Tech LP 34, Indiana Invesco LLC 33, Harbor and Lake LLC 29).
| Name | Type | Parcels on the roll (2025 pay 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Green Development Ventures LLC 17.25 acres of farmland on N 900 W and lots on Mayfield Dr; transfers in 2023 and 2024. |
Developer | 20 parcels, 22.4 acresA |
| Tonn & Blank Construction LLC Under two spellings ('Tonn & Blank' and 'Tonn and Blank'); transfers 2004 to 2014. |
Private company | 11 parcels, $1.67MA |
| Shaggy Dog Development LLC Lots on Tryon Rd and Tryon Farm Ln, transferred in 2024. |
Developer | 11 parcels, 28.8 acresA |
| Illinois Indiana Development Company LLC Latest transfers recorded 2022. |
Developer | 9 parcels, $505,800A |
| KMA Homes LLC Transfers 2016 and 2023. |
Private company | 6 parcels, $433,000A |
| Michigan City Rentals LLC (largest single-family landlord) Mails to Chesterton, Indiana; 18 transfers in 2019. Counted here because it is the largest holder of houses on the roll, not as a builder. |
Private company | 67 parcels, 60 of them single-family (class 510)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
There are no office towers here; commercial value sits in one casino, one outlet mall and the big-box strip along Franklin St and US 20. Figures are total assessed value on the LaPorte County roll for 2025 pay 2026, commercial (4xx) and industrial (3xx) classes only, for owners named on the roll.
| Name | Type | Assessed value, 2025 pay 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Chip Casino, LLC (Boyd Gaming) Casino resort on 34.374 acres; Boyd Gaming's subsidiary per its 2025 10-K Exhibit 21.1. |
Public company | $82.5M, 1 parcelA |
| F/C Michigan City Development LLC (Simon Property Group) Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets, 46.06 acres; Simon reports a 100% fee interest. |
REIT | $37.0M, 1 parcelB |
| Sullair Corporation Plant at 3700 E Michigan Blvd, class 340 industrial, about 25.8 acres in its two main parcels ($10.59M). The roll does not name a parent company. |
Public company | $11.1M, 5 parcelsA |
| NHI-REIT of DSL Propco LLC 4300 Cleveland Ave, class 412, 10.66 acres, transfer 11 Jun 2019, mailing to Bonita Springs, Florida. The roll does not say who stands behind the LLC. |
REIT | $12.0M, 1 parcelA |
| Walmart Real Estate Business Trust 5780 Franklin St, 31.58 acres, $8.90M, transfer 9 Mar 2007. |
Public company | $9.6M, 5 parcelsA |
| Dunes Plaza SPE LLC Dunes Plaza shopping centre on US 20, 16.15 acres. Nearby: Meijer Stores Limited Partnership ($8.18M, 2 parcels), Menard Inc ($8.11M) and Lowe's Home Centers Inc ($3.41M). |
Private company | $9.7M, 2 parcelsA |
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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.
- Sale prices: the roll file has none, and the DLGF sales-disclosure search (gatewaysdf.ifionline.org) needs a CAPTCHA, so no marquee carries an acquisition price.
- LaPorte County's own Beacon property cards (beacon.schneidercorp.com, robots disallows ClaudeBot) and laporteco.in.gov (Cloudflare block) were not read; owner names rest on the State's copy of the county roll.
- Fixed-width field positions in the Gateway Real Property file were inferred from the data (owner at col 224, land/improvement/total AV at 469/481/493, acreage x10,000 at 697); the layout rule 50 IAC 26 could not be read. Acreage matched the legal descriptions on every parcel checked.
- Whether NHI-REIT of DSL Propco LLC belongs to National Health Investors, and who stands behind F/C Michigan City Development LLC beyond Simon's 10-K statement, was not checked in Exhibit 21 lists.
- The current use of Franciscan Alliance's downtown 301 W Homer St campus is not stated on the roll.
- No civic (office-holder and property) record was searched: LaPorte County and City council pages were not reachable or not tried.
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Sources
- Indiana Gateway, Download Data: Property Files, Real Property, LaPorte (46), 2025 pay 2026 (RealParcel_Laporte_46_2025P2026.txt, 64,580 parcels; read 1 Nov 2026; Michigan City = taxing districts 46009 and 46022, 15,066 parcels) — Indiana Department of Local Government Finance (Indiana Gateway), from the LaPorte County Assessor and Auditor · openA
- Parcel Boundaries of Indiana 2024 (IGIO Data Harvest): tax district codes, township and civil city for every LaPorte County parcel — Indiana Geographic Information Office · openA
- Sales Disclosure Form Information ('public search application for post-July 1, 2008 sales disclosures'; IC 6-1.1-5.5-3(d) restricts release of phone numbers; State Form 46021) — Indiana Department of Local Government Finance · openA
- Recorders Fees and Funds, NEO training, Dec 2024 (IC 36-2-7-10, effective 7-1-15: deed or other instrument $25; mortgage $55; copies $1 per page) — Indiana State Board of Accounts · openA
- Boyd Gaming Corporation, Form 10-K for 2025 (Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa, Michigan City: acquired 1999, 486 rooms, 1,307 slots, 22 tables; Item 2 list of leased sites) — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Boyd Gaming Corporation, Exhibit 21.1 Subsidiary Listing ('Blue Chip Casino, LLC dba Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa, Indiana') — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Simon Property Group, Form 10-K for 2025 (Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets: Fee, 100.0%, acquired 2004, 87.4% leased, 444,045 sq ft; Schedule III land $6,630K, gross $116,253K, no encumbrance) — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- NiSource Inc., Form 10-K for 2025 (owned generating facilities: Michigan City, steam-coal, 455 MW; coal unit to retire by end of 2028) — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Michigan City, Indiana (population 32,075 in 2020; 20.59 sq mi; Lighthouse Place, Marquette Mall, Franciscan Health, Indiana State Prison, power plant, Amtrak service ended April 2022) — Wikipedia · openB
- Indiana State Prison (Indiana Department of Correction, opened 1860; coordinates 41.70306, -86.91722) — Wikipedia · openB