Lima, Ohio
In Lima the biggest property holders are its two hospitals, the City, the State of Ohio, the school board and the public housing authority. Its industrial giants, the Cenovus refinery and the Army tank plant, sit mostly or wholly just outside the city line, and every owner is on a free public roll.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 13 sources · 7 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Ohio records title by deed. In Allen County the Recorder records the deed and the County Auditor keeps the tax roll, which is a public record and shows the owner, value and last sale of every parcel free of charge. The Auditor's own search runs on Schneider's Beacon platform, which bars our crawler, but the City of Lima's public GIS server carries the same roll fields (owner, mailing address, land use, market value, last sale date and price, delinquent tax) for all 52,738 county parcels. Prices are on the record because every conveyance pays a fee of $3 per $1,000 plus $0.50 a parcel.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Allen County Auditor property search; City of Lima GIS parcel layer). Conveyance fee $3.00 per $1,000 plus a transfer fee of $0.50 per parcel (Allen County Auditor, Conveyance page). Recorder's recording fees not read
Bulk ownership dataCity of Lima ArcGIS 'Parcels' layer (CitywideMaps/Permits/FeatureServer/11): 52,738 Allen County parcels with owner, mailing address, land use, acreage, market land/building/total value, last sale date and amount, parcels in sale, delinquent taxes and foreclosure flag. Open query, no account, last edited 18 May 2026. No licence stated. The Auditor publishes no bulk file of its own; its advertised delinquent list is an open xlsx
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Health – St. Rita's Medical Center 730 W Market St, Lima |
Institutional | St. Rita's Medical Center Allen County's largest employer (Wikipedia, s7: nearly 4,000 staff in 2006; owned by Mercy Health, since merged into Bon Secours Mercy Health). On the roll the main parcel 36-3608-05-001.000 (9.08 acres) is $122,540,300 market value, the highest in Lima. In all, 'St Ritas Medical Center' holds 136 city parcels (46.6 acres, $204.7M), with 9 more under 'St Ritas Medical Center LLC' ($9.7M) and 19 under 'Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center LLC' ($8.2M). Last roll transfer of the main parcel 16 May 2008, no price. |
Institution | —B |
| Lima Memorial Health System hospital 1001 Bellefontaine Ave, Lima |
Institutional | Lima Memorial Hospital Opened Memorial Day 1933 and Allen County's third-largest employer (Wikipedia, s7). Roll parcel 37-3210-12-001.000, 9.72 acres, $66,450,700; 'Lima Memorial Hospital' holds 57 city parcels (28.2 acres, $82.8M). A related entity, Lima Memorial Joint Operating Company, holds 951 Commerce Pkwy (10.35 acres, $8.64M), bought 29 Jun 2012 for a stated $7,600,000. |
Institution | —B |
| Lima Refinery 1150 S Metcalf St, Lima (Shawnee Township) |
Industrial | Lima Refining Company 100% (Cenovus Energy Inc. subsidiary) Cenovus's 2025 Annual Information Form (s10) lists Lima Refining Company (Delaware) as 100% owned and calls Lima one of its 'wholly-owned' refineries. Wikipedia (s7) gives the ownership chain: Sohio, BP (1987), Clark (1998), Premcor (2000), Valero (2005), Husky Energy (2007); Husky merged into Cenovus. On the roll (s1) the main refinery parcel is 387.31 acres, $36,675,200, last transfer 3 Apr 2007 with no price shown. Lima Refining Company holds 78 county parcels, 719.4 acres, $40.7M: 67 inside the city (128.6 acres) and 11 in Shawnee Township. |
Public company | —B |
| Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (Lima Army Tank Plant) 1155 Buckeye Rd, Lima (Shawnee Township) |
Industrial | United States of America Wikipedia (s8): 'a government-owned, contractor-operated facility currently operated by General Dynamics Land Systems'; built 1941; the HAER record is titled 'Lima Army Tank Plant, 1155 Buckeye Road'. On the County roll (s1) 'United States of America' holds 1151 Buckeye Rd (133.78 acres, $15,992,700) and a Reed Rd parcel (189.96 acres, $1.57M), part of 6 county parcels and 385.4 acres in all, all in Shawnee Township outside the city limit. |
Government | —B |
| Lima Mall 2400 Elida Rd (American Township) 742,000 sq ft · 1 floors |
Retail | Lima Mall Realty Holding LLC Wikipedia (s9): enclosed mall in American Township; in February 2024 Kohan Retail Investment Group and Rocky Companies acquired it; the former Macy's was demolished in May 2025 for a Target due November 2026. The roll (s1) names 'Lima Mall Realty Holding LLC' on parcel 36-2204-01-001.000, 51.19 acres, $11,500,000 market value, last transfer 31 Jan 2025 with no price on the roll. Outside the city tax sets. |
Private company | —B |
| Lima Municipal Center (City Hall) 50 Town Square, Lima |
Civic | City of Lima The City's website footer gives 'Lima Municipal Center, 50 Town Square' (s12). Roll parcel 37-3107-05-013.000, 0.528 acres, $2,582,300, owner 'City of Lima'. |
Government | —A |
| Allen County Courthouse and County office block 301 and 333 N Main St, Lima |
Civic | Allen County Board of Commissioners The Courthouse is on the National Register (Wikipedia, s7); the Auditor gives its office as 301 N Main St and the Recorder as the Courthouse, Room 204 (s2, s3). The roll names 'Allen County Board of Commissioners' on 301 N Main St (0.918 acres, $3,960,300) and 333 N Main St (0.944 acres, $15,538,900). Which building stands on which parcel is not stated on the roll. |
Government | —B |
| County-owned block at 7 Town Square 7 Town Square, Lima |
Civic | Allen County Board of Commissioners Roll parcel 37-3107-11-001.003 at 7 Town Sq, 1.89 acres, $8,107,000, owner 'Allen County Board of Commissioners', recorded 9 Jun 2015 in a 12-parcel transfer with no price. On the same date 175 W Market St (land use 411, 0.825 acres, $2,974,400) passed to the Port Authority of Allen County. The roll gives no building name; whether this is the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center was not confirmed from a source opened here. |
Government | —B |
| Ohio State University at Lima / Rhodes State campus 4240 Campus Dr (Bath Township) |
Institutional | State of Ohio (The Ohio State University) The roll (s1) names 'State of Ohio Ohio State University' on one 558.06-acre parcel, $52,651,400, the largest single public holding near Lima. OSU's regional campus dates from the 1960s (Wikipedia, s7). James A. Rhodes State College separately holds 23 city parcels on Town Square ($6.68M), including 38 Town Sq ($5.97M). |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Lima's most valuable ground is its hospital district west of downtown and the public estate. All figures are market value on the County roll as carried by the City of Lima GIS parcel layer (s1), Lima tax sets M37–M41 only, layer last edited 18 May 2026.
Highest-value parcel$122,540,300
St. Rita's Medical Center main parcel, 730 W Market St, 9.08 acres (s1, read 3 Nov 2026).
City of Lima total market value$2,156,073,280
16,659 parcels, 6,851 roll acres. Residential land uses (5xx) $968.9M; exempt and public (6xx) $742.2M; commercial (4xx) $392.5M on 1,826 parcels; industrial (3xx) $45.8M (s1).
Delinquent property tax on the roll$22,057,922
2,165 Lima parcels carry a delinquent balance and 15 a foreclosure flag (s1). The Auditor's 2025 advertised list holds 518 Lima parcels owing $489,487 of the county's 956 parcels and $1.19M (s4).
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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.
By value, Lima belongs to its public bodies and its two hospitals. The City is the largest holder by parcels and acres in town, the State of Ohio holds the prison ground on N West St (754 acres), the Lima City Board of Education holds $102M of school buildings, and the Allen Metropolitan Housing Authority owns 176 scattered houses. The refinery, the Army's tank plant, Ford's engine plant, Procter & Gamble's plant and OSU-Lima all sit just outside the city line in Shawnee, Bath and American townships. Counts group exact roll names only; Lima tax sets M37–M41 unless stated.
| Name | Type | Lima parcels, County roll via City GIS (May 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Lima Roll names 'City of Lima' (92 parcels, 434 acres, $72.8M, incl. a 12.99-acre Heindel Ave parcel at $32.2M and 1112 E Wayne St at $18.4M) and 'City of Lima Ohio' (261 mostly vacant lots, 82.9 acres). Countywide the City holds 393 parcels and 2,514 acres, including reservoir land in Bath and other townships. The City Land Bank lists 131 properties for sale (s12). |
Government | 353 parcels, 517 acres, $77.8MA |
| State of Ohio Chiefly 2338 N West St (468.55 acres, $19.6M) and 2350 N West St (87.96 acres, $35.4M), recorded 1 Jan 1990. Wikipedia (s7) says the former Lima State Hospital became the Lima Correctional Institution in 1982, which closed in 2004, and that the Allen Correctional Institution remains on the site. ODOT adds 9 city parcels. Countywide the State holds 246 parcels and 995 acres, plus OSU-Lima's 558 acres. |
Government | 23 parcels, 754 acres, $57.2MB |
| Lima City Board of Education Largest is 1 E Spartan Way (31.9 acres, $35.4M; recorded 17 Aug 2011 in a 146-parcel transfer). Other school sites include 615 Tremont Ave ($11.8M) and 503 N Cable Rd ($9.2M). |
Government | 20 parcels, 111.8 acres, $102.3MA |
| Allen Metropolitan Housing Authority 175 of the 176 carry land use 645, mostly scattered single lots bought 1977–1990; the one exception is a 72 Town Sq apartment block. Countywide 194 parcels. |
Government | 176 parcels, 40.2 acres, $14.9MA |
| Allen County Board of Commissioners The County office block at 301/333 N Main St, 7 Town Sq ($8.1M) and 622 W Market St ($5.9M). Countywide 118 parcels and 437 acres. The County land bank (Allen County Land Reutilization Corporation, founded 2016 per s2) holds 6 city parcels on the roll. |
Government | 36 parcels, 38.4 acres, $48.8MA |
| St. Rita's Medical Center (Bon Secours Mercy Health) 'St Ritas Medical Center' 136 parcels ($204.7M), 'St Ritas Medical Center LLC' 9 ($9.7M) and 'Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center LLC' 19 ($8.2M); 59.9 acres together. Grouping of the three names is ours; Wikipedia (s7) ties St. Rita's to Mercy Health and Bon Secours. |
Institution | 164 parcels, $222.7MB |
| Lima Memorial Hospital Hospital campus on Bellefontaine Ave; Lima Memorial Joint Operating Company holds 6 more ($10.6M). |
Institution | 57 parcels, 28.2 acres, $82.8MA |
| University of Northwestern Ohio Private university on N Cable Rd (s7). A further 4 parcels are under 'Northwestern College Inc' ($5.7M) and 3 under 'University of Northwestern Ohio Development Corp' ($1.8M). 1441 N Cable Rd was recorded 27 Apr 2006 at a stated $14,000,000 for 35 parcels. |
Institution | 110 parcels, 21.1 acres, $19.7MA |
| Lima Refining Company (Cenovus) The refinery's main 387-acre parcel is in Shawnee Township; the city parcels carry only $3.07M of value (s1). Ownership per Cenovus's 2025 AIF (s10). |
Public company | 67 city parcels, 128.6 acres; 78 county parcels, 719.4 acres, $40.7MA |
| Railroads Roll names: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co 25 parcels (53.7 acres), New York Central Lines 13 (54.8), Indiana & Ohio Railway Company 13 (33.4), Norfolk & Western Railway Co 7 (20.7), CSX Transportation Inc 3 (2.0). Legacy railroad names stay on the roll; Wikipedia (s7) says the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern and the Indiana & Ohio are owned by Genesee & Wyoming. |
Public company | 61 city parcels, 165 acresA |
| Utilities (Ohio Power Co; West Ohio Gas Co) Names as on the roll, variant spellings grouped. |
Public company | Ohio Power 12 parcels, 15 acres; West Ohio Gas 36 parcels, $2.6MA |
| Port Authority of Allen County Holds 175 W Market St downtown (land use 411, $2.97M, from 9 Jun 2015) and industrial land in the townships. |
Government | 3 city parcels; 26 county parcels, 296 acresA |
| Allen County Regional Airport Authority Perry and Jackson townships, outside the city; the airport is in Perry Township per Wikipedia (s7). |
Government | 13 parcels, 714.9 acresA |
| Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company; Ford Motor Co Both in Bath Township, outside the city: P&G at 3875 and 5025 Reservoir Rd and 735 N Thayer Rd; Ford at 1155 Bible Rd (269.47 acres, $14.96M). Nitrogen and chemical plants in Shawnee Township are held by PCS Nitrogen Ohio L P (3 parcels, 133 acres, $20.4M) and INEOS Nitriles USA LLC (2 parcels, 107 acres, $9.6M). |
Public company | P&G 8 parcels, 561 acres, $66.5M; Ford 3 parcels, 281 acres, $16.0MA |
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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.
Lima builds almost no new housing. Census permits for the city were 54 units in 2021 (one 54-unit building plus 6 units in two small buildings), 22 single-family homes in 2022, 3 in 2023, 6 in 2024 and 9 houses plus 36 apartments in 2025 (s11). The real housing business is buying old houses to rent. Of 11,298 one- to three-family parcels (land use 510–530), 2,297 are held by companies. The builders of new homes are not named in any open source, so the list below shows the largest company holders of houses and the one new-build rental community on the roll (s1).
| Name | Type | Houses on the roll (land use 510–530) |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Manor Lima LLC Catalpa and Holmes streets; all 42 recorded in 2024 at a stated $3,500,000 for the group. The only Lima owner with a block of new-construction flags on the roll. |
Private company | 42 parcels (41 two-family), 29 flagged new constructionA |
| Lima 315 LLC Largest company holder of Lima houses; bought in 2021, 2024 and 2025 batches (stated $2,320,000 across 27 parcels, $860,000 across 11, $393,794 across 18). |
Private company | 111 houses (113 parcels, $3.9M)A |
| Blue Chip Housing LLC Bought 2019–2023 in batches, including $1,304,000 across 24 parcels. |
Private company | 83 houses (90 parcels, $5.0M)A |
| Wiechart Investment Properties LLC Bought 2019–2025. |
Private company | 75 houses (77 parcels, $4.7M)A |
| New Lima Homes LLC Mostly Chestnut St, recorded 2004; a neighbourhood redevelopment holding. |
Private company | 57 houses (67 parcels, $2.6M)A |
| Vision 2, 3 and 4 Investments LLC Three LLCs with the same naming pattern; whether one operator controls them is not stated on the roll. Others with 30+ houses: Rumbaugh Properties LLC 38, Lima Alexander Rentals LLC 38, SK & DD Enterprises LLC 39. |
Private company | 108 houses (113 parcels, $9.3M)B |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Lima has no REIT-scale office market. Its commercial roll (land uses 400–499) is 1,826 city parcels worth $392.5M, led by hospital-district medical offices, a few hotels by I-75 and the north-side retail strip. The mall is just outside the city. Figures are roll market values (s1); prices are the stated consideration on the deed transfer, which repeats across every parcel of a multi-parcel sale.
| Name | Type | Roll market value |
|---|---|---|
| CMK2 Lima LLCs (I, II, IV, 803, 825) Commercial condominium units at 750 and 830 W High St and 803 and 825 W Market St, beside St. Rita's, all recorded 18 May 2018. Stated consideration by entity: CMK2 Lima IV $15,000,000 (26 units), CMK2 Lima 803 $15,000,000 (2), CMK2 Lima II $12,000,000 (9), CMK2 Lima 825 $5,000,000 (13), CMK2 Lima I $2,000,000 (7). Whether these are one deal or several is not stated. |
Private company | 57 condo units, $26.8MA |
| Clocktower Plaza LLC 911 N Cable Rd (13.49 acres, $6.78M), recorded 9 Jun 2016 at a stated $4,600,000 for 4 parcels; 975 N Cable Rd added 28 Aug 2025. |
Private company | 4 parcels, 24.3 acres, $8.4MA |
| 803 South Leonard Avenue Holdings LLC 803 Leonard Ave, land use 411, 3.01 acres, $7,822,000; bought 30 May 2025 for a stated $7,400,000. |
Private company | 1 parcel, $7.8MA |
| CHG Lima LLC 906 S Leonard Ave, land use 410, 4.73 acres, $6,817,900; stated $375,000 on 21 May 2019. |
Private company | 1 parcel, $6.8MA |
| Walmart Stores East LP 2450 Allentown Rd, recorded 29 Apr 2013. |
Public company | 1 parcel, 26.56 acres, $5.9MA |
| Lima Mall Realty Holding LLC Outside the city (American Township); see marquee. Distress on the record: the Auditor's 2025 advertised delinquent list includes H I Heritage Inn of Lima Inc ($21,704.56, 2179 Elida Rd hotel parcel) and Playwithyourfood LLC ($51,054.85, 122 W North St), the largest Lima entries (s4). |
Private company | 51.19 acres, $11.5MA |
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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.
- The names of the buildings on the County's 301 and 333 N Main St parcels, and whether 7 Town Square is the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center: the roll gives addresses, not building names.
- What land-use codes 410 and 411 mean (motel or hotel) per Ohio's classification: no classification page was opened, so the hotel parcels on Leonard Ave and W Market St are listed by code only.
- The price paid for the Lima Mall in 2024 (Kohan and Rocky Companies) and for the refinery in 2007: the roll shows no consideration for either transfer.
- Who builds Lima's few new homes: the Census counts permits but no source names builders, and the Auditor's Beacon search (robots-disallowed) was not used.
- The Recorder's recording fees and document index (Allen County Recorder) were not read.
- The City of Lima and Allen County principal-taxpayer tables in their audited financial reports: the State Auditor's site disallows all robots.
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Sources
- City of Lima GIS 'Parcels' layer (CitywideMaps/Permits/FeatureServer/11): 52,738 Allen County parcels, 16,659 in the City of Lima tax sets M37–M41; owner, mailing address, land use code, acres, market values, last sale date and amount, parcels in sale, delinquent taxes; queried 3 Nov 2026 — City of Lima (GIS server colgis.cityhall.lima.oh.us) · openA
- Allen County Auditor home page (links Real Estate Property Search to beacon.schneidercorp.com) — Allen County Auditor · openA
- Conveyance: transfer of ownership, conveyance and transfer fees — Allen County Auditor · openA
- Delinquent Lists & Auditor Sales, with the 2025 Advertised Delinquent Taxpayer List (Final-Delq-Adv-List.xlsx, 956 parcels) — Allen County Auditor · openA
- 2025 tax rates by tax set (M37–M41 are the City of Lima in five school districts) — Allen County Auditor · openA
- Public Records: 'All records of the Allen County Auditor are public, unless they are exempt' — Allen County Auditor · openA
- Lima, Ohio — Wikipedia · openA
- Lima Army Tank Plant (Joint Systems Manufacturing Center) — Wikipedia · openA
- Lima Mall — Wikipedia · openA
- Cenovus Energy Inc. 2025 Annual Information Form (Form 40-F exhibit, filed 19 Feb 2026) — Cenovus Energy Inc. / SEC EDGAR · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place files mw2021a–mw2025a.txt (Lima city, Ohio, place 43554) — US Census Bureau · openA
- Land Bank Property Inventory (131 properties) — City of Lima · openA
- beacon.schneidercorp.com robots.txt (ClaudeBot Disallow: /) — Schneider Geospatial · openA