St. Cloud, Minnesota
Stearns County publishes the owner, estimated market value and tax class of every parcel in its part of St. Cloud as a free public map service, so the city's largest holders can be counted directly: the City, the State (St. Cloud State University), the school district and the CentraCare hospital system.
8 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 16 sources · 5 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Minnesota records land with the county Recorder under two systems: ordinary abstract title, and Torrens registration under court supervision (Minnesota Statutes chapter 508). St. Cloud spans three counties, mostly Stearns, with parts in Benton and Sherburne. Ownership is free: Stearns County's public GIS parcel service gives each parcel's owner, mailing address, estimated market value and tax class, and the State's compiled parcel layer covers the Sherburne owners and the Benton taxpayers. Every sale over $3,000 must be filed with a Certificate of Real Estate Value stating the full price, and the deed tax is 0.33%, but no open layer for St. Cloud carries the price.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Stearns County GIS 'General/Parcels' map service; State 'Parcels, Compiled from Opt-In Open Data Counties' layer for the Sherburne and Benton parts). Recorder copy and search fees were not read: the county website renders its department pages by script
Bulk ownership dataStearns County GIS 'General/Parcels' MapServer layer 0 (17,429 parcels in tax district ST CLOUD CITY; owner, owner mailing address, property address, plat, tax class, estimated land/building/total market value, tax year 2027 / assessment year 2026), public, no registration, 1,000 records per request. The county's own bulk download (parcels.zip) and the State compilation omit Stearns owner names. No licence stated, so rows are not republished
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
Sites that forbid taking their data
- mprnews.org / mpr.org — “Personal use ... This means that you may not engage in any kind of further distribution, reprinting, reposting, or rebroadcast (over the airwaves or on the web), either commercial or noncommercial.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Cloud City Hall 1201 7th St S, St. Cloud |
Civic | City of St. Cloud The City gives its City Hall address as 1201 7th Street South (s7). On the Stearns County roll (s1) parcel 82.46637.0070 at that address, plat Eastman Park Addition, is owned by CITY OF ST CLOUD, class 5E municipal-public service, 9.12 acres, estimated market value $2,498,300 (assessment year 2026). The City's parcels on the roll all carry 1201 7th St S as the owner's mailing address. |
Government | —A |
| Stearns County Courthouse and Administration Center 705 Courthouse Sq, St. Cloud |
Civic | Stearns County The county's site gives its offices at 705 Courthouse Square (s8). The roll (s1) holds four County parcels on the square: 705 Courthouse Sq (2.32 acres, $8,772,000), 725 (1.01 acres, $4,267,700), 807 (1.25 acres, $12,145,100) and 815 (0.36 acres, $1,723,800), all owned by COUNTY OF STEARNS, class 5E county-public service. Which building stands on each parcel is not stated on the roll. |
Government | —A |
| St. Cloud Hospital (CentraCare) 1406 6th Ave N, St. Cloud |
Institutional | St. Cloud Hospital Parcel 82.50616.0600, owner of record ST CLOUD HOSPITAL, class 5E hospital-private, 24.1 acres, estimated market value $81,578,100 ($81.6M), the highest of any parcel in the Stearns part of the city (s1). A point query at Wikipedia's coordinates for the hospital returns this parcel. Wikipedia (s10) says the hospital is not-for-profit and part of CentraCare Health, with 489 beds. Next door, 1200 6th Ave N (2.6 acres, $7,784,000) is held by CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM. The roll does not state the corporate tie between the titled hospital and CentraCare. |
Institution | —B |
| Crossroads Center 4101 Division St, St. Cloud |
Retail | Contrarian Crossroads LLC Roll (s1): parcel 82.46411.0031, owner CONTRARIAN CROSSROADS LLC, class 3A commercial, 38.9 acres, estimated market value $44,200,000. The same owner holds two more parcels (4141 Division St and one with no address), 39.5 acres and $44.6M in all. MPR News (s9) reported in January 2024 that a Stearns County judge approved the sale by the receiver, Trigild, to 'Delaware-based Contrarian Crossroads LLC, which will assume the debt'. The former owner, St. Cloud Mall LLC, a Brookfield Properties affiliate, had not paid its $84 million mortgage since August 2020. MPR calls it the largest regional mall in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities. |
Private company | —B |
| St. Cloud VA medical center campus 4801 8th St N, St. Cloud |
Institutional | United States of America (Veterans Administration) Parcel 82.43742.0050, owner of record VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSP, class 5E federal property, 208.7 acres, estimated market value $36,743,300 (s1). With a second parcel held as VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, the VA holds 216.4 acres in the city. The roll uses the owner name shown; no deed was opened. |
Government | —A |
| St. Cloud State University campus 1st–5th Ave S, south of downtown, St. Cloud |
Institutional | State of Minnesota The university's land is titled to the State. On the roll (s1), 88 parcels owned by STATE OF MINNESOTA are class 5E college-public: 153.3 acres, $213.0M estimated market value. Two of the 88 lie away from the campus, on Northway Dr (35.3 acres, $16.3M). The largest campus parcels are 400 6th St S ($20.1M), 650 1st Ave S ($15.2M) and 1204 4th Ave S ($15.0M). A point query at Wikipedia's campus coordinates (s13) returns a State college parcel at 915 1st Ave S. A few lots are held as ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY, STATE OF MINNESOTA-SCSU or SCSU FOUNDATION INC. |
Government | —B |
| St. Cloud Regional Airport 1550 45th Ave SE, St. Cloud (Sherburne County) |
Civic | St. Cloud Regional Airport Authority In the State's parcel compilation (s3), five Sherburne parcels in the St. Cloud parcel district (PIN prefix 85) are owned by 'St Cloud Regional Airport Authority': 1,416.5 acres, estimated market value $26.6M, the largest at 1550 45th Ave SE (486.9 acres) and 2185 45th Ave SE (361.4 acres, $16.2M of buildings). A point query at the airport's coordinates returns the first. Wikipedia (s11) also names the Authority as owner and gives 1,414 acres; its infobox says 'City of St. Cloud', so the roll is followed. |
Government | —A |
| Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud 2305 Minnesota Blvd SE, St. Cloud (Sherburne County) |
Institutional | State of Minnesota State compilation (s3), Sherburne: parcel 85-00007-1000 at 2305 Minnesota Blvd, owner and taxpayer 'State Reformatory', class State Public Property, 147.6 acres, $1.2M land and $32.8M buildings. With a second parcel the reformatory holds 192.1 acres and $35.0M in the city's Sherburne district. A point query at Wikipedia's coordinates for the prison (s12) returns this parcel. Wikipedia says it was established in 1889 as the Minnesota State Reformatory for Men and is the intake prison for men. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
St. Cloud's most valuable ground is institutional, not commercial: the hospital, the university and the school district outrank every private holding. Values are Stearns County estimated market values for assessment year 2026 (taxes payable 2027) in s1, and Sherburne values in the State compilation (s3); Benton rows carry no values.
Highest-valued parcel$81.6M
St. Cloud Hospital, 1406 6th Ave N, 24.1 acres (s1, assessment 2026).
Highest-valued commercial parcel$44.2M
Crossroads Center, 4101 Division St, 38.9 acres (s1). The mall's mortgage stood at $84M when it went into default (s9).
Stearns part of the city, all parcels$6.39B
17,429 parcels, about 19,875 acres; 13,914 of the parcels are class single-unit residential (s1, assessment 2026).
Sherburne part (PIN district 85)$537M
1,544 parcels, about 2,834 acres, land plus building values (s3).
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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.
Government and the hospital hold the biggest blocks of St. Cloud. In the Stearns part the City is the largest landholder, with 303 parcels over 1,747 acres. St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare hold more land (55 parcels, 1,847 acres) and nearly as much value ($200.9M). The State, mostly the university, holds the most value ($230.3M), ahead of the school district. Across the river in Sherburne County, the Airport Authority (1,417 acres) and the State Reformatory (192 acres) dominate. Figures are parcels in the owner's name, with acreage computed from parcel area. Stearns figures are from s1; Sherburne PIN district 85 figures are from s3.
| Name | Type | Holdings in the city, Stearns roll 2026 (+ Sherburne part) |
|---|---|---|
| City of St. Cloud Held as CITY OF ST CLOUD; in Sherburne as City of St Cloud / Saint Cloud / St. Cloud. Its largest-valued parcels are a 6.45-acre parcel in the plat ST CLOUD CIVIC CENTER ($27.4M, no street address), 101 11th Ave N ($23.4M), 1300 St Germain St W ($23.4M) and 1005 5th Ave N ($22.1M). In the Benton part, 23 parcels list 'City of St Cloud City Clerk-City Hall' as taxpayer (s3). |
Government | 303 parcels, 1,746.8 acres, $205.2M (+49 Sherburne parcels, 213.7 acres, $14.2M)A |
| St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare Health System 42 parcels held as ST CLOUD HOSPITAL or SAINT CLOUD HOSPITAL (1,386.3 acres, $156.1M) and 13 as CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM (461.1 acres, $44.8M). Wikipedia says the hospital is part of CentraCare (s10). |
Institution | 55 parcels, 1,847.4 acres, $200.9MB |
| State of Minnesota (including St. Cloud State University) Variants: STATE OF MINNESOTA, -SCSU, /DOT, -MILITARY AF, -POLLUTION CONTROLL, STATE OF MN and ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY. 88 parcels are class college-public ($213.0M). The Sherburne figure includes the State Reformatory (MCF-St. Cloud, 192.1 acres, $35.0M) and 'State of Minn Farm' (s3). |
Government | 114 parcels, 368.9 acres, $230.3M (+10 Sherburne parcels, 444.2 acres, $37.8M)A |
| Independent School District 742 (St. Cloud Area Schools) Its largest is 3500 County Road 74, 105.3 acres, $47.3M, the second-highest-valued parcel in the Stearns part of the city. |
Government | 23 parcels, 353.1 acres, $94.5M (+10 Sherburne, 22.1 acres, $6.5M)A |
| St. Cloud Regional Airport Authority The airport (s11). |
Government | 5 parcels, 1,416.5 acres, $26.6M (Sherburne)A |
| United States (Veterans Administration) The VA campus at 4801 8th St N. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE holds one more parcel (1.5 acres, $1.4M). |
Government | 2 parcels, 216.4 acres, $36.7MA |
| Stearns County Held as COUNTY OF STEARNS, STEARNS COUNTY, STEARNS COUNTY PTF 1002 and STEARNS COUNTY REG RAIL AUTH. |
Government | 37 parcels, 142.6 acres, $30.2MA |
| Housing and Redevelopment Authority of St. Cloud Held as HRA OF ST CLOUD, H R A OF ST CLOUD and HRA OF CITY OF ST CLOUD; the largest is 54 4th Ave N ($4.6M). |
Government | 81 parcels, 25.5 acres, $23.1M (+3 Sherburne)A |
| Economic Development Authority of the City of St. Cloud Two name variants on the Stearns roll; 'Eda of St Cloud' is taxpayer of 13 Benton parcels (s3). |
Government | 4 parcels, 43.0 acres, $1.5M (+13 Benton parcels as taxpayer)A |
| Burlington Northern Inc / BNSF Railway Company Held as BURLINGTON NORTHERN INC on the Stearns roll and Bnsf Railway Company in Sherburne (s3). |
Public company | 5 parcels, 104.3 acres, $5.6M (+1 Sherburne, 30.5 acres)A |
| Northern States Power Co Held as NORTHERN STATES POWER CO; in the Benton part, Northern States Power Co is taxpayer of 3 parcels (s3). |
Public company | 9 parcels, 15.4 acres, $3.5M (+3 Benton parcels)A |
| Cold Spring Granite Co and Martin Marietta Materials Real Estate Investments Inc Quarry and industrial land on the city's west and south sides: Cold Spring Granite at 3704 St Germain St W (forest and rural classes), Martin Marietta at 500–502 33rd St S. |
Private company | 8 parcels, 206.5 acres / 2 parcels, 100.3 acresA |
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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.
St. Cloud builds slowly and locally. The Census Bureau counts 113 single-family homes ($23.6M) and one 95-unit apartment building ($20.0M) permitted in the city in 2025 (s14). No national builder holds land here in its own name: a search of the Stearns roll for D.R. Horton, Lennar, Pulte and others found none. The holders are local firms. Figures are parcels in the builder's own name on the Stearns roll (s1), which are lots and unsold homes, not closings. Benton figures are taxpayer names (s3).
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name, Stearns roll 2026 (Benton taxpayer rows where marked) |
|---|---|---|
| Torborg Builders Held as TORBORG BUILDERS, 45.1 acres, $22.1M. The firm also holds 7 commercial parcels, and TORBORG CONSTRUCTION LLC holds 2 more. Two Sherburne parcels are in the same name (s3). |
Private company | 80 (61 single-family, 10 vacant residential lots)A |
| Lumber One (Lumber One Development Co LLC, Lumber One Development Company LLC, Lumber One Avon Inc) Mostly class 4B4 unimproved residential lots on 40th–41st St S and Nottingham Rd S, plus farm-class land. |
Private company | 34 (lots and land, 46.4 acres)A |
| Stone Gate Patio Homes LLC Patio homes on 31st–32nd St S, $4.2M estimated market value. A STONE GATE FACILITIES ASSOC holds the common area. |
Private company | 13 single-familyA |
| Berscheid Builders LLC All class 4B4 unimproved residential land. |
Private company | 8 vacant residential lotsA |
| Capstone Homes Inc Taxpayer of 16 parcels in the Benton County part of the city; the Benton rows carry no values or tax class (s3). |
Private company | 16 (Benton part, taxpayer)A |
| B M L Builders Inc Taxpayer of 10 Benton parcels (s3). |
Private company | 10 (Benton part, taxpayer)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Private commercial property in St. Cloud is spread across local companies, a few national net-lease landlords' property companies, and the mall's distressed-debt buyer. The Stearns roll has 1,129 class 3A commercial and industrial parcels worth $1.11B, and 402 apartment parcels (class 4A) worth $601M (s1). Owner names are as the roll gives them. Where a name looks like a listed company's subsidiary, the roll alone does not prove the tie, so none is claimed.
| Name | Type | Stearns roll 2026, estimated market value |
|---|---|---|
| Contrarian Crossroads LLC Crossroads Center, bought through the receivership with the debt assumed (s9). |
Private company | 3 parcels, 39.5 acres, $44.6MA |
| 6250 Ridgewood Rd Owner LLC Industrial land and buildings at 6210–6250 Ridgewood Rd. |
Private company | 6 parcels, 93.6 acres, $24.4MA |
| Midwest Real Estate Holdings LLC Industrial parcels at 275 74th St S and 6401 8th Ave S, plus farm-class land. |
Private company | 4 parcels, 132.7 acres, $21.7MA |
| Eleven Investments LLC Includes the downtown commercial parcels at 400 1st St S ($11.0M together) and 4150 2nd St S. |
Private company | 3 parcels, $19.5MA |
| St. Cloud Business Park LLC Commercial and industrial parcels including 20 McLeland Rd. |
Private company | 13 parcels, 59.0 acres, $18.1MA |
| St Cloud Rainbow Village LLC Retail parcels at 3940 Division St and 3959 2nd St S ($15.4M). |
Private company | 4 parcels, 13.4 acres, $17.7MA |
| Coborn's, Incorporated Held as COBORN'S INCORPORATED, including 1919–1921 Coborn Blvd and 4500 Clearwater Rd; one more Benton parcel lists Coborn's Inc as taxpayer (s3). |
Private company | 6 parcels, 37.6 acres, $13.1MA |
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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 City's largest-valued parcel ($27.4M, 6.45 acres, plat ST CLOUD CIVIC CENTER, no street address) is probably the River's Edge Convention Center, formerly the St. Cloud Civic Center. No source opened ties the parcel to the building, so it is not a marquee entry.
- Crossroads Center sale price: search results show WJON reporting $80 million from a Department of Revenue filing, and a deals listing showing $79,867,741 closing on 2 May 2024. Neither page was opened (WJON is a Townsquare site whose terms forbid automated use), so no price is recorded.
- Sale prices: none of the open layers for St. Cloud carries the Certificate of Real Estate Value price. transactionGranularity is 'none' for open data, although every sale over $3,000 is filed with its price (s4).
- The Sherburne part of the city was taken as PIN district 85 of the State compilation (1,544 parcels, ZIP 56304, plats 'East Saint Cloud' and others, and the airport and the reformatory). The layer has no city field, so the boundary was not confirmed.
- Benton part (2,069 parcels with ctu_name 'Saint Cloud'): the State compilation gives only taxpayer names and deed acres, with no owner names or values, so Benton holdings are counts only.
- Kelly Midwest Ventures LP holds 100 4th Ave S (4.02 acres) and 301 2nd St S next to the downtown riverfront, $6.4M together. Whether a hotel stands there was not confirmed from an opened source.
- Stearns County Recorder fees and the Torrens share of St. Cloud titles were not read: the county's department pages render by script.
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Sources
- Stearns County GIS, General/Parcels MapServer layer 0 'Parcels' (fields include OWNER, OWNERADDR, PROPADDR, plat, PROPCLASSLONG, EMV_LAND, EMV_BLDG, emvtotal, city, TAX_YEAR 2027, ASSESSMENT_YEAR 2026; 17,429 parcels with city = 'ST CLOUD CITY'); all St. Cloud rows read 3 Nov 2026 — Stearns County (ArcGIS Server; item 'Parcels' owned by stearns_gis on ArcGIS Online) · openA
- Stearns County parcel download parcels.zip (ParcelsStearnsCo shapefile, 73,243 parcels, last modified 15 Oct 2026): the OWNER and OWNERDISPLAY fields are present but blank in every row — Stearns County GIS · openA
- Parcels, Compiled from Opt-In Open Data Counties, Minnesota: 'Plan Parcels Open' layer 1 (GAC parcel standard; updated quarterly). Stearns rows carry no owner_name (0 of 73,181); Sherburne rows carry owner_name and estimated market value; Benton rows carry tax_name (taxpayer) only. Metadata layer 0 lists Stearns, Benton and Sherburne with gac_open_approval 'true' — Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo), Geospatial Commons · openA
- Minn. Stat. 272.115, subd. 1: a certificate of value must be filed with the county auditor whenever real estate is sold for a consideration over $3,000, stating 'the amount of the full actual consideration' — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes · openA
- Minn. Stat. 287.21, subd. 1: deed tax of .0033 of the net consideration where it exceeds $3,000; $1.65 otherwise — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes · openA
- Minn. Stat. 508.01 'Registration': 'Real estate in this state may be registered under the provisions of this chapter' (Torrens) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes · openA
- City of St. Cloud home page, Contact Us: 'St. Cloud City Hall, 1201 7th Street South, St. Cloud, MN 56301' — City of St. Cloud · openA
- Stearns County home page (courthouse and administration address 705 Courthouse Square, St. Cloud, MN 56303) — Stearns County · openA
- Court approves sales of Crossroads Center in St. Cloud (25 Jan 2024): Trigild, the court-appointed receiver, agreed to sell to 'Delaware-based Contrarian Crossroads LLC, which will assume the debt'; the earlier owner, St. Cloud Mall LLC, 'an affiliate of Brookfield Properties', was sued over an '$84 million mortgage' unpaid 'since August 2020' — MPR News (Minnesota Public Radio) · openA
- St. Cloud Hospital (Wikipedia): 'a Catholic-affiliated, not-for-profit institution and part of CentraCare Health'; 489 beds; infobox coordinates 45.57528 N, 94.16917 W — Wikipedia · openA
- St. Cloud Regional Airport (Wikipedia): public-use airport in Sherburne County 'owned by the St. Cloud Regional Airport Authority'; 'covers an area of 1,414 acres'; coordinates 45.54667 N, 94.06000 W — Wikipedia · openA
- Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud (Wikipedia): state prison 'Established in 1889 as the Minnesota State Reformatory for Men', about 1,000 inmates, intake facility for men; coordinates 45.54306 N, 94.11667 W — Wikipedia · openA
- St. Cloud State University (Wikipedia): public university in the Minnesota State system, founded 1869; 10,164 students (fall 2024); infobox coordinates 45.55 N, 94.15 W — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, places, Midwest region, 2025 annual (mw2025a.txt): St. Cloud (place 56896, Stearns county code 145), 12 months reported: 113 one-unit buildings ($23,561,828) and 1 building of five or more units with 95 units ($20,000,000) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Permissions to Republish MPR and APM Content — Minnesota Public Radio / American Public Media · openA
- City of St. Cloud 'Property Search' page (302 to the 'St. Cloud Link' Experience Builder app; the app's item on ArcGIS Online names the City parcel services on sws.stcloudcity.com) — City of St. Cloud · openA