Paducah, Kentucky
McCracken County's Property Valuation Administrator lets the city-county GIS office publish the owner of every parcel as a public ArcGIS Online layer, but that layer's host answers robots.txt with 403, so it is no longer read; who owns Paducah's landmarks now rests on the City's 2025 annual financial report (the Carson Center lease and the principal-taxpayer table), the City's hotel page, GSA, the Cafaro Company and the state hospital-licence layer, and sale prices sit on a parcel-search host that refuses automated reading.
10 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 22 sources · 6 tier A · 4 tier B · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Kentucky records title by deed with the county clerk; there is no state title register. Every deed must state the full consideration under a sworn certificate (KRS 382.135), and the grantor pays a transfer tax of $0.50 per $500 of declared value (KRS 142.050). In McCracken County the elected Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) values all 34,000-odd parcels; the City of Paducah and county GIS office (MAP GIS) republishes the PVA's owner of record as a public ArcGIS Online layer, but its data host answers robots.txt with 403, so we treat it as closed to us. The PVA's own parcel and sales search runs on a third-party qPublic host whose robots.txt excludes us, and the County Clerk's deed site does the same.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record: PVA FAQ says ask at the office or use its qPublic search; MAP GIS 'PVAParcels' layer listed as public (item page). PVA open-records requests: electronic preferred, paper or postage 'may incur a small, appropriate fee'. County Clerk recording fees not read (mccracken.countyclerk.us disallows ClaudeBot in robots.txt). State transfer tax $0.50 per $500 of declared value (KRS 142.050)
Bulk ownership dataMAP GIS (City of Paducah / McCracken County) 'PVAParcels' feature service on ArcGIS Online: 'Polygon layer for parcels with ownership provided from the McCracken County, KY PVA', access public, tagged owner/parcel/ownership, no licence stated (item page, s2). Its data host services1.arcgis.com answers robots.txt with HTTP 403, so the layer is treated as blocked (Jim 2026-11-04) and no row from it is used. No values or sale prices on the layer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holiday Inn Paducah Riverfront 600 North 4th Street |
Hotel | City of Paducah The City's project page (s9): a development agreement with 'Paducah Riverfront Hotel (LinGate Hospitality)'; 'the City of Paducah will lease the hotel property to the developer for a term of 20-years with the property to revert to the developer at the end of the term'; 123-room, five-storey hotel at 600 North 4th Street on the 1.4-acre site that once housed the dome pavilion, adjacent to the Julian Carroll Convention Center; an '$18 million dollar project', $900,000 city allowance; opened 19 July 2017. So the City holds the property now and the hotel company is the lessee due to receive it. |
Government | —A |
| Kentucky Oaks Mall 5101 Hinkleville Road 1,300,000 sq ft GLA · 1 floors |
Retail | Cafaro Company Cafaro (s20): 'The Cafaro-owned property' in Paducah, renovated and extended by the purchase of adjacent Olivet Church Crossing. The City's 2025 ACFR (s21) lists 'Kentucky Oaks Mall' as the city's largest property taxpayer: assessed $45,928,400 as of 1 Jan 2024 (1.40% of the total), down from $50,900,262 (2.20%) in 2016. GLA 1.3M sq ft and the 1982 opening are from Wikipedia (s11). The titled entity on the PVA roll is no longer read (its layer's host is robots-403). No sale price is on any source opened. |
Private company | —B |
| Paducah City Hall 300 South 5th Street |
Civic | City of Paducah The City (s10, s15) places City Hall at 300 South 5th Street; 'the building and grounds ... encompass a city block'; designed by Edward Durell Stone, built 1963-65; rehabilitated 2017-19 (A&K Construction contract $4,165,285 after Change Order No. 5). The City's 2025 ACFR (s21) lists it among City facilities under evaluation (the concrete cantilever), noting 'the Commission's intent to remain in the current City Hall for the long term'. City ownership rests on these City documents; the PVA parcel record is no longer read (robots-403 host). |
Government | —B |
| Carson Center for the Performing Arts 100 Kentucky Avenue |
Civic | City of Paducah City ACFR 2025, Note 10 (s21): 'The City is leasing land and building to the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center for the Performing Arts (Center) for a primary term of 99 years. No rental revenue is collected'; 'The building is deemed the property of the City'; in Dec 2003 the Center secured $6.5M financing under a mortgage on the leasehold, the City consenting. The ACFR dates the opening to February 2004 with an 1,800-seat main hall; the Carson Center (s12) gives its address as 100 Kentucky Avenue, a 501(c)(3) charity, main hall 1,806 seats. |
Government | —A |
| Julian Carroll Convention Center 415 Park Avenue |
Civic | Not established the register is open, but this building was not matched City ACFR 2025 (s21): McCracken County borrowed $5,000,000 from the Kentucky Association of Counties in March 2009 for Julian Carroll Convention Center renovations, the City liable for 50% under a 2009 interlocal agreement; in January 2017 the City borrowed $3,000,000 on the County's behalf for further improvements. The City (s9) places the Holiday Inn Riverfront adjacent to it. The titled owner (a city-county convention center corporation on the PVA roll) is no longer sourced: that roll's layer host answers robots.txt with 403. |
Not established | —B |
| Former Executive Inn site (riverfront) | Land | City of Paducah The City (s9): additional parking for the riverfront hotel 'is located on a portion of the city-owned property that once housed the Executive Inn', next to the convention centre. The site's acreage and parcel record, and the City's purchase price, were not found on any source that opened. |
Government | —A |
| Baptist Health Paducah (hospital campus) 2501 Kentucky Avenue |
Institutional | Baptist Healthcare Systems Inc State hospital layer (s22, CHFS Office of Inspector General licensure data): Baptist Health Paducah, 2501 Kentucky Avenue, acute-care licence, OWNER 'Baptist Healthcare Systems Inc'. That is the licensed owner of the hospital; the land title (previously from the PVA layer, now robots-403) is not separately sourced. Wikipedia (s14), from the city's 2023 ACFR: Baptist Healthcare Systems employed 1,432 in the city. |
Institution | —A |
| Mercy Health – Lourdes Hospital campus 1530 Lone Oak Road |
Institutional | Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital, LLC State hospital layer (s22, CHFS Office of Inspector General licensure data): Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital, 1530 Lone Oak Rd, acute-care licence, OWNER 'Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital, LLC'. That is the licensed owner of the hospital; the campus land titles (previously from the PVA layer, now robots-403) are not separately sourced. Wikipedia (s14): Bon Secours Mercy Health was the city's largest employer (1,445) in the 2023 ACFR. |
Institution | —A |
| West Kentucky Community and Technical College campus Alben Barkley Drive |
Institutional | Not established the register is open, but this building was not matched WKCTC (s13) is a public college in the state's KCTCS system, on Alben Barkley Drive since 1964. The City's ACFR (s21) lists Paducah Junior College, Inc. as a related organisation whose city-tax revenue may fund the college's property. The titled owner (the Commonwealth, on the PVA roll) is no longer sourced: that roll's layer host answers robots.txt with 403. Wikipedia (s14) places Murray State's Paducah campus, 43,000 sq ft on 23 acres, next door (opened 2014). |
Not established | —B |
| Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse 501 Broadway 55,824 gross sq ft · 3 floors |
Civic | United States of America (GSA) GSA prospectus (s23): the Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse 'located at 501 Broadway Street', Georgian Revival, built 1938, 55,824 gross sq ft on 3 floors above grade plus a basement, housing the U.S. Courts and U.S. Marshals Service; a $40,479,000 security, systems and seismic project was requested for FY2024. GSA: 'It is the only Federally owned asset in Paducah, KY.' |
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 PVA's per-parcel assessments sit on the qPublic host that excludes us, and the owner layer is on a robots-403 host, so the single most valuable parcel in Paducah could not be read. The City's 2025 ACFR gives the next best thing: the city's total assessed value and its largest taxpayers (as of 1 Jan 2024), with the county base, tax rate and sales below.
McCracken County net taxable real estate assessment, 2026$6,255,009,442
McCracken County PVA assessment history (s16): up 4.65% on 2025's $5,976,826,423 and 68% on 2016's $3,723,275,197; excludes exempt and appealed property. The city's share is not published there.
City of Paducah total assessed value (FY2025)$3,383,035,529
City ACFR 2025, Table 14 legal debt margin (s21): net assessed value plus exemptions; the debt limit is 10% of it, $338,303,553.
Largest property taxpayerKentucky Oaks Mall, $45,928,400
City ACFR 2025, Table 7 (s21), PVA assessed value as of 1 Jan 2024: 1.40% of the city's total; the ten largest taxpayers together hold 6.36% ($207,852,301).
Parcels in the City of Paducah13,078
McCracken County PVA parcel counts (s4, last updated 25 Jun 2024): City district 10,274 and City Annex 2,804, of 34,311 county-wide.
Paducah city real estate tax rate, 20261.129 per $100 city + 0.368 county
McCracken County PVA tax-rate table (s19); the 2025 combined rate for district 08 was 1.525 per $100. The 2026 combined cell is printed '.1497', evidently 1.497.
County arms-length sales, 2025546 deeds, $144,724,748
PVA deed-type statistics (s17), all classes county-wide; down from 838 deeds and $246.8M in 2024.
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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 dominate the ground, but the parcel-by-owner acreages that showed it came from the PVA layer on a robots-403 host and are now in unverified. What the City's own accounts state: it carries $10,267,997 of land at cost in its governmental activities (s21), owns the Carson Center land and building (leased for 99 years) and the former Executive Inn riverfront site (s9). The Housing Authority, Paducah Power System, the Joint Sewer Agency and the Transit Authority are legally separate bodies (s21); the Riverport Authority was set up by city and county in 1964 'under an equal ownership agreement' (s14).
| Name | Type | Stated holding |
|---|---|---|
| City of Paducah City ACFR 2025 capital assets (s21); plus the Carson Center land and building leased to the Center for 99 years (Note 10) and city-owned riverfront property that once housed the Executive Inn (s9). The City is also selling surplus lots by sealed bid (s15). |
Government | Land $10,267,997 at cost (governmental activities, FY2025)A |
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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.
Paducah builds few new homes: the PVA counted 14 new-construction deeds and 14 vacant-lot/builder deeds county-wide in 2025, against 546 arms-length sales (s17), and carries 111 open new-house permits across the county (s18). No league table of builders exists for the market; the list of the largest residential-parcel holders came from the PVA layer, whose host answers robots.txt with 403, so it is now in unverified.
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Paducah has no REIT-scale landlord. The City's 2025 ACFR principal-taxpayer table (s21; PVA assessed values as of 1 Jan 2024; property tax, so a holder's taxable tangible property may be included with its real estate) names the largest holders of taxable property; the regional mall leads. Floor areas are not stated there.
| Name | Type | Assessed value, 1 Jan 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Oaks Mall (Cafaro Company) ACFR Table 7 (s21); $50,900,262 (2.20%) in 2016. Cafaro calls it 'The Cafaro-owned property' (s20). |
Private company | $45,928,400 (1.40%)B |
| Boyd Co (formerly Whayne Supply Co) ACFR Table 7 (s21), listed as "Boyd Co FKA Whayne Supply Co"; not in the 2016 top ten. |
Private company | $28,724,892 (0.88%)A |
| Prosper Paducah LLC ACFR Table 7 (s21); not in the 2016 top ten. |
Private company | $25,680,000 (0.79%)A |
| Hudson Technologies Co ACFR Table 7 (s21). |
Private company | $19,593,553 (0.60%)A |
| LCP Paducah II LLC ACFR Table 7 (s21). |
Private company | $15,674,484 (0.48%)A |
| Computer Services Inc ACFR Table 7 (s21); $9,083,185 (0.39%) in 2016. Menard LLC ($14,950,001) and Ducmall LLC ($13,300,852) follow. |
Private company | $15,521,291 (0.47%)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.
- Sale prices for the marquee properties: the PVA's qPublic sales list and the County Clerk's deed index both disallow our crawler in robots.txt, so no price or sale date is recorded.
- Assessed values: no per-parcel value is on the GIS owner layer, so no 'highest assessed parcel' is given.
- Single-family rental holders: several of the largest residential-parcel holders are companies whose names are a person's full name; they are left out under the naming rule, so the residential list understates concentration.
- Parcel-level owners, acreages and deed references for every marquee building (Holiday Inn ground 1.31 ac 'City of Paducah Kentucky' with a separate Paducah Riverfront Hotel LP record; Kentucky Oaks Mall Co c/o Warner Management, 5 parcels 90.2 ac; City Hall 2.6 ac; Carson Center 4.27 ac; convention center corporation 9.2 + 4.9 ac; Executive Inn site 15.18 ac; Baptist Hospital Inc 18.6 ac; Lourdes Hospital Inc 35.0 ac; Commonwealth c/o WKCTC 164.7 ac; USA GSA 0.62 ac) — previously from services1.arcgis.com (PVAParcels layer), whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04).
- Largest landowners in the city by acreage (City of Paducah 218 parcels ~866 ac; Paducah-McCracken County Industrial Development Authority 40 parcels ~538 ac; Commonwealth 12 parcels ~213 ac plus a 1,757-ac Ohio River parcel; McCracken County ~273 ac; Electric Plant Board ~137 ac; Housing Authority of Paducah 23 parcels 94.0 ac; Paducah Independent Schools ~94 ac; Paducah Water Works ~93 ac; Lourdes/Mercy ~94 ac; railroads ~83 ac; Riverport Authority ~62 ac) — previously from services1.arcgis.com (PVAParcels layer), whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04).
- Largest commercial parcel holders by count (Kentucky Oaks Mall Co 90.2 ac; Falconite Real Estate Holdings LLC 18 parcels; Wal-Mart 2 stores 47.2 ac; Computer Services Inc 15 parcels 33.4 ac; Wagner Enterprises LLC 54 parcels; MidAmerica Hotels Corp 8 parcels) — previously from services1.arcgis.com (PVAParcels layer), whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04).
- Largest residential-parcel holders (Blue Bison Capital Fox Harbor KY LLC 34; Arcadia Street Development LLC 29+6; Trails End Development LLC 30; Wagner Enterprises LLC 27; Sena Development LLC 15; Woodlands Reserve LLC 10) — previously from services1.arcgis.com (PVAParcels layer), whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04).
- Parcels in the city's two tax districts on the layer (13,301 of 35,379, data to 30 Oct 2026) and the largest built parcel (164.7 ac, WKCTC) — previously from services1.arcgis.com (PVAParcels layer), whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04).
- Owner of the Julian Carroll Convention Center and of the WKCTC campus: the PVA roll named a city-county convention center corporation and the Commonwealth; no other open source states the titled owner.
- Single-family rental holders: several large residential holders bear a person's full name and are left out under the naming rule.
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Sources
- PVAParcels (item page): 'Polygon layer for parcels with ownership provided from the McCracken County, KY PVA'; owner MAP_GIS_Site_Admin; access public — MAP GIS via ArcGIS Online · openA
- McCracken County PVA, Frequently Asked Questions: 'How do I find out who owns a certain property? ... call ... stop by the office and ask or use our Qpublic website'; 'How do I learn how much a property sold for? ... use our Qpublic website' — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- McCracken County PVA, Parcel Counts (last updated 25 Jun 2024): 34,311 parcels county-wide; City district 10,274 and City Annex 2,804 parcels; in the City district 8,173 residential, 1,277 commercial, 253 exempt-city, 41 exempt-county, 11 exempt-state, 4 exempt-federal, 148 exempt-religious, 18 exempt-educational — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- McCracken County PVA, Open Records Request: email, fax, in person or mail; 'Records requested delivered on paper may incur a small, appropriate fee. Electronic records are preferred when possible' — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- KRS 142.050 Real estate transfer tax: tax on the grantor 'at the rate of fifty cents ($0.50) for each $500 of value or fraction thereof, which value is declared in the deed'; collected by the county clerk on recording — Kentucky General Assembly (Legislative Research Commission) · openA
- KRS 382.135: a deed to real property shall contain 'A statement of the full consideration' and a sworn, notarized certificate 'that the consideration reflected in the deed is the full consideration paid for the property' — Kentucky General Assembly (Legislative Research Commission) · openA
- McCracken County PVA home page: Online Tools link 'Property Record Search', 'Property Tax Maps' and 'Sales List' to qpublic.schneidercorp.com (AppID=854); 'Deeds: The county clerk has deeds available online for commercial and private use' (mccracken.countyclerk.us) — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- Downtown Hotel Project - LinGate Hospitality: development agreement between the City of Paducah and 'Paducah Riverfront Hotel (LinGate Hospitality)'; 'the City of Paducah will lease the hotel property to the developer for a term of 20-years with the property to revert to the developer at the end of the term'; 123-room Holiday Inn Paducah Riverfront, 600 North 4th Street, '$18 million dollar project'; city allowance $900,000; extra parking on 'the city-owned property that once housed the Executive Inn'; opened 19 July 2017 — City of Paducah · openA
- About City Hall: 'Paducah's City Hall is located at 300 South 5th Street. The building and grounds ... encompass a city block'; designed by Edward Durell Stone, constructed 1963-1965; rehabilitation contract with A&K Construction $4,165,285 (Change Order No. 5, 22 Jan 2019) — City of Paducah · openA
- Kentucky Oaks Mall: 5101 Hinkleville Road; opened 1982; 'developed by the Cafaro Company, which owns and manages it'; 1,300,000 sq ft GLA; Sears closed 2017 and Elder-Beerman 2018, Cafaro redevelopment announced late 2018 — Wikipedia · openA
- The Carson Center, Host Your Event: 'a 501(c)3 charitable organization'; main hall seats 1,806; location 100 Kentucky Avenue, Paducah 42003 — The Carson Center for the Performing Arts · openA
- West Kentucky Community and Technical College: public community college in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, formed 2003; campus on Alben Barkley Drive since 1964 — Wikipedia · openA
- Paducah, Kentucky: 2020 census population 27,137; Carson Center completed downtown 2004; Murray State Paducah campus, 43,000 sq ft on a 23-acre campus adjacent to WKCTC, opened 2014; Paducah–McCracken County Riverport Authority established 1964 by city and county 'under an equal ownership agreement'; top employers per the city's 2023 ACFR: Bon Secours Mercy Health 1,445, Baptist Healthcare Systems 1,432 — Wikipedia · openA
- City Surplus Property: Planning Division, '300 South 5th Street, City Hall, Paducah, KY 42003'; sealed proposals for surplus city lots, deadline 4 Nov 2026; 'sold "as is" and with no implied warranty of clear title' — City of Paducah · openA
- McCracken County Assessment History: net taxable assessment 2026 $6,255,009,442 (+$278,183,019, +4.65%); 2025 $5,976,826,423; 2016 $3,723,275,197; excludes homestead and farm discounts, appealed and tax-exempt property — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- Real Estate Sales Statistics (deed types and counts, all property classes, county-wide): 2025 arms-length transactions (Z) 546, $144,724,748; 2024 838, $246,802,348; 2025 new construction (I) 14, $5,996,775; vacant lot/builders (T) 14, $2,555,500; foreclosure proceedings (L) 8, $964,522 — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- Active Permits (county-wide, PVA's open building permits): RES NEW 111, COM-NEW 42 (+3 'COM NEW', +1 'COM - NEW'), RENO/REPAIR 114; total 499 — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- Tax Rates (per $100): district 08 Paducah City — county rate .368, city rate 1.129 for 2026 (combined total printed '.1497'); 2025 combined 1.525; district 09 City Annex combined 1.153 (2026) — McCracken County Property Valuation Administrator · openA
- Kentucky Oaks Mall | First a 'refresh' then a revitalization: 'the story of Kentucky Oaks Mall in Paducah. The Cafaro-owned property underwent a multi-million dollar renovation'; acquisition of adjacent Olivet Church Crossing; Costco on a parcel adjacent to the mall — Cafaro Company · openA
- City of Paducah Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, year ended 30 June 2025: Note 10 Carson Center land-and-building lease (99 years; 'The building is deemed the property of the City'); Table 7 Principal Taxpayers - Property Tax (PVA assessed values as of 1 Jan 2024); Table 14 total assessed value $3,383,035,529; capital assets, land $10,267,997 (governmental); Julian Carroll Convention Center financing notes; City Hall cantilever evaluation — City of Paducah, Finance Department · openA
- Ky_Hospitals_WGS84WM layer 0 'Hospitals' (attributes from CHFS Office of Inspector General licensure): Baptist Health Paducah, 2501 Kentucky Avenue, OWNER 'Baptist Healthcare Systems Inc', acute; Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital, 1530 Lone Oak Rd, OWNER 'Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital, LLC', acute; queried attribute-only 4 Nov 2026 — Kentucky Division of Geographic Information (KyGovMaps, kygisserver.ky.gov) · openA
- GSA Prospectus - Alteration, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Paducah KY (PKY-0059-PA24): 'located at 501 Broadway Street'; Georgian Revival, built 1938; 55,824 gross square feet over 4 floors (3 above grade, one basement); $40,479,000 requested; 'It is the only Federally owned asset in Paducah, KY' — U.S. General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service · openA