Tyler, Texas
Tyler's owner of record is public under Texas law through the Smith County Appraisal District, but that district's site bars AI agents, so this record rests on filings and public bodies' own reports.
10 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 21 sources · 6 tier A · 4 tier B · prepared 2026-10-31
Can you find out who owns it?
Texas keeps no state title register; the owner of record is carried on the county appraisal district's roll, here the Smith County Appraisal District (Smith CAD), whose property search is free to the public. Deeds are recorded by the Smith County Clerk. Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure, and Government Code 552.149 keeps privately obtained sale prices confidential, so prices surface only through filings or reporting. Smith CAD's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web, so its roll was not read for this record.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchNot available at any price
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
Sites that forbid taking their data
- tylerpaper.com — “You may download material from the Service for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.”
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Square Mall 4601 S Broadway Ave 613,437 sq ft |
Retail | Simon Property Group 100% (fee) Simon's 2025 10-K lists Broadway Square, Tyler TX, as held in 'Fee', 100.0% ownership, 'Acquired 1994', 99.1% leased, 613,437 sq ft, anchors Dillard's, JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods and HomeGoods. Schedule III carries it unencumbered at a gross cost of $99.3M (land $11.3M, buildings $88.0M) less $53.0M accumulated depreciation. Simon is the City's No. 9 taxpayer in 2025 ($45.1M taxable, ACFR Table 10). The 1994 acquisition price is not stated. The street address is from general knowledge, not the filing. |
REIT | —A |
| Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR) 700 Skyway Blvd |
Civic | City of Tyler The City's airport page: 'Tyler Pounds Regional Airport is owned and operated by the City of Tyler, Texas.' The first land was 'a 93-acre tract bought in June of 1929, at a cost of $4,461.50'; by June 1930 it had 240 acres. The terminal opened 17 August 2002; the old terminal now houses the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum (ACFR Table 21). The City runs it as an enterprise fund with 3 runways (ACFR), and leases hangar space under FAA-regulated leases. Total current acreage was not found. The street address is from general knowledge. |
Government | —A |
| UT Health Tyler (flagship hospital of UT Health East Texas) 1000 S Beckham Ave |
Institutional | Ardent Health (UT Health East Texas joint venture) Ardent 70% / UT Health Science Center at Tyler 30% of JV earnings; hospital assets held by Ardent subsidiaries Ardent's 2025 10-K: 'We own, or control through our JVs ... UT Health Tyler in Tyler, Texas.' Its subsidiaries 'own the assets of eight hospitals and related facilities and operations in the Tyler, Texas area'; UTHSCT keeps its own North Campus hospital, which Ardent only manages. Earnings are split 70% Ardent / 30% UTHSCT. The City's No. 2 taxpayer in 2025 is 'Tyler Regional Hospital LLC' ($197.3M taxable, ACFR), and Ardent's Exhibit 21 lists Tyler Regional Hospital, LLC as an Ardent subsidiary. That this LLC holds this campus is inferred from the two documents, not stated. Street address from general knowledge. |
Public company | —B |
| Delek Tyler Refinery East Tyler (refinery site; street address not taken from a source) |
Industrial | Delek US Holdings Delek's 2025 10-K: 'Our Tyler refinery has a nameplate crude throughput capacity of 75,000 bpd' and 'Its property consists of approximately 600 contiguous acres of land that we own in Tyler, Texas and adjacent areas'. The refined-products terminal at the site is owned by Delek Logistics. 'Delek Refining LTD' is the City's No. 1 taxpayer, $277.3M taxable in 2025 (2.07%), and was No. 1 in 2016 too (ACFR Table 10). |
Public company | —A |
| Blackstone Hotel site (planned full-service hotel) Downtown Tyler, near the original Blackstone Hotel site |
Hotel | Not established the source would not open City news, 1 May 2026: Valencia Hotel Group 'is investing $47.7 million' in a 140-room hotel with 5,700 sq ft of meeting space, expected to break ground in Q4 2026 and finish in Q1 2028, 'near the site of the original Blackstone Hotel, which opened in 1922' and 'was demolished in 1985'. The site celebration was held in the Plaza Tower atrium. Who holds title to the site was not stated, and Smith CAD's roll, which would say, bars AI agents. |
Not established | —A |
| The Village at Cumberland Park 8916-8934 S Broadway Ave (at Loop 49) |
Retail | Tyler Broadway/Centennial LP Texas Architectural Barriers filings for new pad buildings (2022) and tenant build-outs (2024) at the centre name the owner 'Tyler Broadway/Centennial LP' (also filed as 'Tyler Broadway & Centennial LP'), of 2525 McKinnon Street, Dallas. The City's ACFR ranks 'Tyler Broadway / Centennial LP' No. 7 taxpayer in 2025 at $88.4M taxable (0.66%), up from $63.5M (No. 6) in 2016. Who stands behind the partnership was not established from a filing, and TABS owner fields are what the filer entered, not a title search. Floor area was not taken from an opened source. |
Private company | —B |
| Plaza Tower 110 N College Ave |
Office | Not established the jurisdiction does not disclose owners The tallest building in Tyler, 280 ft and 19 floors, completed 1980 (Wikipedia). The Tyler Morning Telegraph (8 Aug 2018): 'The Genecov Group announced the sale of the downtown office building known as Plaza Tower to a local real estate investment group' and 'has owned Plaza Tower since 2008'; the buyers are named only as individuals and no buying entity is stated. Accessibility filings for renovations 2019-2026 (TABS) list an individual as owner, so no company is named here. No price was reported. Smith CAD's roll, which would name the owning entity, bars AI agents. |
Not established | —A |
| CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler 800 E Dawson St |
Institutional | CHRISTUS Mother Frances Health System Texas Architectural Barriers filings for work at 800 E Dawson name the owner as 'CHRISTUS Mother Frances Health System' (2024 lab renovation, $1.5M) and 'Mother Frances Hospital' (2026 operating-room project, $800,000), both privately funded 'on private land for private use'. CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances is Tyler's largest employer (5,000, ACFR Table 18). TABS owner fields are what the filer entered, not a title; the CHRISTUS Health parent's own filings were not read, and the hospital's acreage and value were not found. |
Institution | —B |
| The University of Texas at Tyler, main campus 3900 University Blvd |
Institutional | The University of Texas System UT Tyler's own fact page: 'Tyler Main Campus: More than 260 acres nestled in the beautiful pine and oak forests of East Texas'; Wikipedia gives 259 acres (IPEDS) and names the University of Texas System as parent. That title rests with the UT System Board of Regents is inferred from its being a UT System component, not read from a deed or roll. UT Tyler employs 1,200 and the UT Health Science Center at Tyler a further 1,450 (ACFR Table 18). Street address from general knowledge. |
Government | —B |
| New Smith County Courthouse and parking garage Downtown Tyler (Erwin St, Fannin and Spring Aves; garage at 210 E Ferguson St) |
Civic | Smith County Smith County: 'The $179 million Smith County Courthouse Bond passed with 53.73 percent of the vote on November 8, 2022', $160M for the new courthouse and $19M for the garage. The 543-space, five-story garage opened 12 Nov 2024 next to the Smith County Annex. Ground was broken 15 Aug 2024; the courthouse 'is expected to be completed in fall 2026, with complete move-in and demo of the current courthouse to occur by fall 2027'. Buildings on East Erwin Street and Fannin and Spring Avenues were demolished for the site. The page states the County's project and bonds; no deed was read. |
Government | —A |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
From the City of Tyler's FY2025 ACFR (tables sourced to Smith CAD). Values are certified taxable values, not prices; exempt public property is excluded.
Total taxable assessed value, FY2025$13.77B
ACFR Table 8: real property $12.41B, personal property $1.36B (tax year 2024). The Table 10 footnote gives $13,410,271,543 for the same year; the ACFR does not reconcile the two.
Ten largest taxpayers' share$1.47B; 10.97%
ACFR Table 10, 2025; 10.94% in 2016. Largest: Delek Refining LTD, $277.3M.
Growth of the tax base$7.52B (FY2016) to $13.77B (FY2025)
ACFR Table 8; the City rate fell from 0.2626 in FY2023 to 0.240085 per $100 in FY2025. Combined direct and overlapping rate with Smith County, Tyler ISD and Tyler Junior College: 3.73123 per $100.
DowntownTIF/TIRZ #3 and #4
ACFR: the funds were 'established to encourage economic development in the Downtown area' and capture added property and sales tax on new construction in the zones; Smith County and Tyler Junior College also contribute. The $47.7M Blackstone Hotel is the largest private downtown project announced (City news, May 2026).
3
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 and two industrial employers hold the largest known ground in Tyler, but without the Smith CAD roll (its robots.txt bars AI agents) no owner's account count or acreage inside the city could be computed. What follows is what each holder's own filing or report states. Acreage figures are the holders' own; the City's land figure is historical cost, not market value.
| Name | Type | Holdings as the source states them |
|---|---|---|
| City of Tyler FY2025 ACFR: capital assets not being depreciated include land of $18,583,601 (governmental, up $1.27M in the year) and $12,073,047 (business-type, i.e. water, sewer, solid waste and the airport), plus $12.5M of water rights, including 40% of Lake Palestine's perpetual yield bought in 1965. Parks total 1,213.6 acres (Table 21). The City owns and operates Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, runs Lake Tyler and Lake Tyler East, the Rose Garden and the new Rose Complex conference centre, and owns the Fair Plaza Parking Garage at 208 S College Ave (Smith County courthouse page, s19). |
Government | Land at cost $30.7M (governmental $18.6M, business-type $12.1M); 1,213.6 acres of parksA |
| Smith County The County is replacing its downtown courthouse: a 543-space garage at 210 E Ferguson St opened 12 Nov 2024 and the new courthouse, on a site cleared of buildings on East Erwin Street and Fannin and Spring Avenues, is due in fall 2026, with the old courthouse demolished by fall 2027. The County's own acreage and land at cost were not read; its financial reports are not posted on the Auditor's page. |
Government | $179M courthouse and garage bond (2022); new courthouse due fall 2026A |
| Delek US Holdings 'Its property consists of approximately 600 contiguous acres of land that we own in Tyler, Texas and adjacent areas' (2025 10-K). Delek Refining LTD is the City's largest taxpayer ($277.3M taxable, 2025). The 10-K says 'and adjacent areas', so not all 600 acres need lie inside the city limits. |
Public company | About 600 contiguous acres (refinery)A |
| The University of Texas System (UT Tyler and UT Health Science Center at Tyler) UT Tyler's fact page gives 'More than 260 acres' for the main campus. The UT Health Science Center at Tyler (UTHSCT) separately owns the UT Health North Campus Tyler hospital, which Ardent manages but does not own (Ardent 10-K); whether that campus lies inside the city limits was not checked against the boundary. Title in the UT System's name is inferred from its being a UT System component. |
Government | More than 260 acres (UT Tyler main campus)B |
| Ardent Health (UT Health East Texas JV subsidiaries, incl. Tyler Regional Hospital, LLC) Ardent's 2025 10-K: 'Our subsidiaries ... own the assets of eight hospitals and related facilities and operations in the Tyler, Texas area'; earnings are shared 70% Ardent / 30% UTHSCT. Several of the eight are in other towns (Athens, Carthage, Pittsburg, Quitman stand on county ground leases). Tyler Regional Hospital, LLC is an Ardent subsidiary (Exhibit 21) and the City's No. 2 taxpayer. |
Public company | 8 hospitals and related facilities in the Tyler area (assets owned); No. 2 City taxpayer, $197.3MA |
| Oncor Electric Delivery The electric wires utility, ranked fifth among City taxpayers in 2025 ($118,428,277, 0.88%) and fifth in 2016 ($64.0M). Its holding is mostly lines, substations and equipment rather than land; no acreage is stated. |
Public company | $118.4M taxable in the City (No. 5, 2025)A |
| Tyler Independent School District The ACFR names 'the Tyler ISD regional sports stadium' within the Rose Complex area and lists Tyler ISD as the City's third-largest employer (2,550). Tyler ISD's own capital-asset note was not read and the roll was unreachable, so no acreage or value is stated. |
Government | Not established (roll unreachable)A |
5
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.
Tyler permits few homes for its size. The Census Bureau's 2025 Building Permits Survey counts 248 single-family houses ($73.1M), 2 two-unit buildings (4 units), 2 three-to-four-unit buildings (8 units) and 2 buildings of five or more units (10 units) permitted inside the city - 270 units in all, against a population of about 113,000. Much new building in the Tyler area happens outside the city limits. Builder-level counts would come from Smith CAD's roll (lots held in each builder's name), which bars AI agents, and no published league table of Tyler starts by builder was found, so builders are not ranked here.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Venterra Realty (build-to-rent) Cumberland Park Homes, 240 Centennial Parkway; TABS filing, $46.0M, 2025-2027. Venterra is the owner-developer; the homebuilder is not named. |
Private company | 252 homes for rentA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Tyler's private property wealth is a refinery, two hospital systems, an HVAC plant, a grocery chain's headquarters and distribution, and two regional shopping centres. The only published ranking is the City's principal-taxpayer table, whose figures are taxable values that include business personal property (equipment and inventory), so they overstate real estate for the industrial names. The table below keeps the real-estate holders. Note the ACFR's own inconsistency: 'Trane Co / American Standard Inc' is printed at $353.2M taxable but ranked third, below Delek's $277.3M.
| Name | Type | City taxable value, 2025 (ACFR Table 10) |
|---|---|---|
| Tyler Broadway/Centennial LP Owner of record for The Village at Cumberland Park on Texas Architectural Barriers filings (Dallas address); $63.5M and No. 6 in 2016. Partners not established. |
Private company | $88.4M (No. 7)A |
| Genecov Investments LTD $82.8M and No. 4 in 2016. The Genecov Group owned Plaza Tower from 2008 and sold it in August 2018 to a local investor group (Tyler Morning Telegraph). Which properties make up the 2025 figure was not established, nor who owns the partnership. |
Private company | $79.7M (No. 8)A |
| Simon Property Group Broadway Square Mall, held in fee at 100% since 1994 (Simon 10-K); $43.6M taxable in 2016. |
REIT | $45.1M (No. 9); Broadway Square, 613,437 sq ftA |
| CWS SAF XII Cascades I Owner LLC Printed in the ACFR as 'CWS SAF XII Cascades I Ownder LLC'. The name points to an apartment fund ('SAF XII') and a property called Cascades, but neither is confirmed by an opened filing; $42.5M in 2016 too. Owner type is a judgement from the fund-style name. |
Private equity | $42.5M (No. 10)A |
| Brookshire Grocery Co Headquartered in Tyler and its seventh-largest employer (1,450). The figure mixes real estate with equipment and inventory; $112.0M and No. 2 in 2016. |
Private company | $179.6M (No. 4)A |
| Wal-Mart Stores / Wal-Mart Real Estate Printed 'Wal-Mart Stores / Wal-Mart Rel Estate'; $42.6M (No. 8) in 2016. Walmart employs 1,500 in Tyler (ACFR Table 18). |
Public company | $90.0M (No. 6)A |
| Venterra Realty Owner on the TABS filing for Cumberland Park Homes, 240 Centennial Parkway: a leasing office and amenities for '252 single family homes for rent', $46.0M estimated, December 2025 to December 2027. The only build-to-rent single-family holder found; whether the site is inside the city limits was not checked. |
Private company | 252 single-family homes for rent (under construction)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.
- Owner-of-record account counts, acreage and values for every landowner, builder and landlord inside the city: Smith CAD's roll is the source and its robots.txt bars ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web, so none was computed.
- Whether Smith CAD offers a free bulk export (as Bell CAD does) - its site could not be read, so bulkOwnership is null and the 'open-dataset' spine rests on Texas practice that appraisal rolls are public and searchable free, not on Smith CAD's own page.
- The entity that bought Plaza Tower in August 2018; the newspaper names only individuals and TABS filings list an individual as owner.
- Who holds title to the Blackstone Hotel site downtown (Valencia Hotel Group is the $47.7M developer; the land owner is not stated).
- That Tyler Regional Hospital, LLC (Ardent subsidiary, No. 2 taxpayer) is the entity holding the UT Health Tyler campus at 1000 S Beckham - inferred from Ardent's Exhibit 21 and the ACFR, not stated.
- The partners behind Tyler Broadway/Centennial LP and the floor area of The Village at Cumberland Park (a GlobeSt report cited in search results gives 649,636 sq ft and a $105M refinancing; not opened).
- What property CWS SAF XII Cascades I Owner LLC holds and who sponsors it.
- Tyler ISD, Tyler Junior College and Smith County land at cost or acreage (their financial reports were not read or not posted).
- Railroad (Union Pacific) and federal holdings (e.g. the William M. Steger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse) in the city - no opened source states them.
- Smith County Clerk deed-copy fees; titleSearchFee is null.
- Whether UT Health North Campus Tyler (UTHSCT-owned) and Cumberland Park Homes lie inside the city limits - not checked against the legal boundary.
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Sources
- City of Tyler Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended 30 Sep 2025 (Table 10 Principal Property Taxpayers, Table 18 Principal Employers, Table 21 Capital Asset Statistics, Note on capital assets) — City of Tyler, Texas · openA
- robots.txt of the Smith County Appraisal District website (Cloudflare managed content; ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web: Disallow /) — Smith County Appraisal District · openA
- County Directory: Smith County (appraisal district and tax assessor-collector contacts) — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · openA
- Simon Property Group Form 10-K for 2025 (Item 2 property table and Schedule III) — Simon Property Group, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Our Airport: history of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport — City of Tyler, Texas · openA
- Ardent Health, Inc. Form 10-K for 2025 (Business, Properties, joint ventures) — Ardent Health, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Ardent Health, Inc. 2025 Form 10-K Exhibit 21.1, subsidiaries of the registrant — Ardent Health, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Delek US Holdings Form 10-K for 2025 (Business and Properties: Tyler Refinery) — Delek US Holdings, Inc. (SEC EDGAR) · openA
- Blackstone Hotel Site Celebration marks next step for Downtown Tyler (1 May 2026) — City of Tyler, Texas · openA
- TDLR Texas Architectural Barriers (TABS) project TABS2022012045: Village at Cumberland Park, Pad Site 3, 8916 S Broadway Ave (owner as filed) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- TDLR TABS project TABS2024009906: City Gear, The Village at Cumberland Park, 8930 S Broadway Ave Suite 292 (owner as filed) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- Genecov Group announces sale of downtown Plaza Tower building (8 Aug 2018) — Tyler Morning Telegraph · openA
- Plaza Tower (Tyler, Texas) — Wikipedia · openA
- TDLR TABS project TABS2022001882: Plaza Tower, 110 N College Ave, renovations to 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 12th floors (owner as filed: an individual) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- TDLR TABS project TABS2024012724: CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, 800 E Dawson, Lab Renovations Phase 2 (owner as filed) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- TDLR TABS project TABS2026012811: CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, 800 E Dawson, O.R. 22 (owner as filed) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- UT Tyler at a Glance (Fast Facts) — The University of Texas at Tyler · openA
- University of Texas at Tyler — Wikipedia · openA
- Courthouse Planning: Smith County Courthouse / Parking Garage construction updates — Smith County, Texas · openA
- TDLR TABS project TABS2025026195: Cumberland Park Homes, club/leasing office, 240 Centennial Parkway (owner as filed) — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place-level file 2025, South Region (so2025a.txt): Tyler city, Texas — U.S. Census Bureau · openA