Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown's owners of record are public and free to read through the county's GIS, and they show a city held largely by public bodies and land banks: Youngstown State University, the school district and two prisons hold the most valuable ground, while two land-reutilization programs hold over 4,000 mostly vacant lots.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 15 sources · 9 tier B · 1 tier A · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Ohio has no state title register. Each county auditor keeps the owner of record for tax purposes, and the county recorder keeps the deeds. In Mahoning County the auditor's parcel layer is served openly by the county's GIS (gisapp.mahoningcountyoh.gov). For every parcel it gives the owner name, mailing address, land use, market value, acreage, last transfer date, deed number and sale amount (taken from the conveyance-fee statement), with no licence or disclaimer on the service. The Auditor's own property-search site bars AI crawlers in robots.txt and was not used. Deed copies from the Recorder cost $2.00 a page.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Mahoning County GIS parcel layer); Recorder copies $2.00 per page uncertified, $2.00 per page plus $1.00 certified (Recorder's Schedule of Fees)
Bulk ownership dataMahoning County GIS, PUBLIC_WEBSITE_CADASTRAL MapServer layer 2 (PROPERTY BOUNDARIES): open ArcGIS REST query, up to 10,000 records a request, with owner, mailing and tax addresses, land use, land/improvement/total market value, CAUV, acreage, sale date, deed number and sale amount. 60,432 rows carry MUNICIP 'Youngstown'. No licence stated.
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
- auditor.mahoningcountyoh.gov — “robots.txt: 'NOTICE: The collection of content and other data on this site through automated means, including any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape content, is prohibited except (1) as provided by the below Content Usage directives or (2) with express written permission from Pivot Point.' It also lists 'User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: /'.”
- www.vindy.com — “'You may use the Content online only, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use.' ... 'You may not scrape or otherwise copy our Content without written permission.' One article was read for single stated facts (Realty Tower owner, demolition), which are quoted, not copied.”
- businessjournaldaily.com — “'The material may not be copied, modified, reproduced, downloaded or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of The Business Journal'. Terms read; no article opened (the one tried returned 404).”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Tower (Central Tower, First National Bank Building, FNB Tower) 1 W Federal St (1 Federal Plaza West) |
Office | FNB Youngstown LLC Wikipedia: 17 storeys, 224 ft (68 m), the tallest building in Youngstown since it was finished in 1929; NRHP 1980. The roll lists parcel 53-002-A-039.00-0 at 1 W Federal St to FNB Youngstown LLC, land use 449, 2026 market value $1,257,520 (land $28,870, building $1,228,650), transfer 15 Sep 2023 for $1,375,000. A whole-tower sale for about $1.4M is the Youngstown downtown market in one number. |
Private company | $1,375,000 2023-09-15 Sale amount on the roll; the same figure sits on all three FNB Youngstown parcels (1 W Federal, 15 Market St, W Federal lot), so it is one deed's total. B |
| Wick Building (The Wick Tower) 34 W Federal St (34 Federal Plaza West) |
Mixed use | West 34 Investors LLC Wikipedia: D. H. Burnham & Company, 1910, 13 floors, 184 ft, the city's tallest until 1929; NYO Property Group bought it in 2012 and reopened it in August 2015 as The Wick Tower, apartments and extended-stay units with ground-floor commercial space. The roll now lists parcel 53-002-A-076.00-0 to West 34 Investors LLC, transfer 1 Jul 2022 with no sale amount recorded, 2026 market value $3,741,250. No source opened says who stands behind the LLC. |
Private company | —B |
| Realty Tower site (Realty Building, demolished 2024) 47 Federal Plaza / E Federal St at Central Square |
Land | YO Properties 47 LLC Built 1924, turned into 23 apartments in 2009 (Wikipedia). A gas explosion on 28 May 2024 killed one bank worker; the Vindicator reports 'Building owner YO Properties 47 LLC decided June 17 to demolish' it, and by 27 Sep 2024 the site was a paved parking lot. The roll lists two parcels (53-002-A-030, -031) to YO Properties 47 LLC; together they are now valued at $75,460, which is land only. The address match between the roll and the news reports is ours (same LLC, same block). Lawsuits against the owner are reported. |
Private company | $2,000,000 2018-06-01 Sale amount on the roll, carried on both YO Properties 47 parcels, so it is the deed total. B |
| Stambaugh Building (DoubleTree by Hilton Youngstown Downtown) 44 E Federal St |
Hotel | Youngstown Stambaugh Hotel LLC Wikipedia: the DoubleTree by Hilton opened in 2018 in the historic Stambaugh Building, the first new downtown hotel since 1974. The roll lists parcel 53-002-A-081.00-0 (land use 411, hotel) to Youngstown Stambaugh Hotel LLC, transfer 8 Nov 2016 with no sale amount, 2026 market value $8,181,370. That is the most valuable private building downtown on the roll. |
Private company | —B |
| Covelli Centre 229 E Front St |
Civic | City of Youngstown Wikipedia: the arena opened 19 Oct 2005, cost $42 million, was 'funded primarily through a $26 million federal grant', stands on a former steel-mill site, is owned by the City and run by JAC Management Group; home of the Youngstown Phantoms (USHL). The roll lists parcel 53-016-0-232.00-0 to City of Youngstown, 29.17 acres, 2026 market value $16,890,260, the City's most valuable parcel. |
Government | —B |
| Youngstown City Hall 116 W Boardman St (Boardman and Phelps) |
Civic | City of Youngstown The roll names parcel 53-002-A-009.00-0 'CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN CITY HALL', land use 640 (municipal), 0.38 acres, 2026 market value $2,189,830. 131 other parcels are titled to the City's finance department at City Hall. The City's own site did not resolve, so its stated City Hall address was not read. |
Government | —A |
| Mahoning County Courthouse and county offices 120 Market St |
Civic | Mahoning County Board of Commissioners The county gives its address as 120 Market Street, Youngstown, with the Recorder on the first floor (Recorder Schedule of Fees page). The roll lists parcel 53-002-0-027.00-0 at 120 Market St to Mahoning County Board of Commissioners, 1.12 acres, land use 620, 2026 market value $5,189,510, transfer recorded 5 Jul 1907. The county's most valuable parcel in the city is 110 Fifth Ave ($12.95M). |
Government | —B |
| Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital 1044 Belmont Ave |
Institutional | St Elizabeths Hospital (Mercy Health) Wikipedia: a 409-bed non-profit hospital and Level I trauma center, opened 1911, 'owned and operated by Mercy Health'. The roll titles parcel 53-077-0-322.00-0 (7.89 acres, 2026 market value $36,631,150) to 'ST ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL'. Across the city, St Elizabeth, Humility of Mary Health Partners and Mercy Health Youngstown LLC hold 119 parcels worth $68.1M. Mercy Health Youngstown LLC bought 37 parcels on Parmalee Ave for $3.25M on 5 Sep 2025 (roll). |
Institution | —B |
| Northeast Ohio Correctional Center 2240 Hubbard Rd |
Institutional | Corrections Corporation of America (CoreCivic) The single most valuable parcel in Youngstown. The roll lists 53-084-0-005.02-0 to 'CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA', 72.1 acres, 2026 market value $67,887,320, last transfer 5 May 2016 with no sale amount. Wikipedia: a private medium-security men's prison opened 1997, 'owned and operated by CoreCivic and its predecessor, Corrections Corporation of America', capacity about 2,016 (2017), holding people for the US Marshals Service and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. |
Public company | —B |
| Ohio State Penitentiary 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd |
Institutional | State of Ohio Wikipedia: Ohio's supermax, opened 1998, run by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, capacity 502. The roll lists 53-225-0-038.00-0 to 'STATE OF OHIO DEPT / CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN' (both names on the record), 210.6 acres, land use 610, 2026 market value $52,214,910, transfer dated 22 Jul 2025 with no sale amount. The roll does not explain the joint name or the 2025 transfer. |
Government | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Computed from the Mahoning County GIS parcel layer (PUBLIC_WEBSITE_CADASTRAL layer 2), parcels with MUNICIP 'Youngstown', queried 3 Nov 2026 (latest transfer on file 27 Oct 2026). Values are 2026 market values, not prices. A small part of the city (about 0.5 sq mi, no residents, per Wikipedia) lies in Trumbull County and is not included.
Parcels in the city60,432 rows; $2.67B market value; 19,115 acres
Residential (5xx) 50,150 parcels, $1.14B; commercial (4xx) 5,777, $595M; industrial (3xx) 1,177, $173M; exempt (6xx) 2,952, $752M (28% of the city's value).
Highest assessed parcel$67.9M
Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, 2240 Hubbard Rd, Corrections Corporation of America (72.1 acres). Next: Ohio State Penitentiary $52.2M; St. Elizabeth hospital $36.6M; YSU, 422 Wick Ave $28.1M.
Downtown (tax map 53-002)267 parcels, 52.5 acres, $130.7M
Land alone is $11.8M, about $225,000 an acre, the city's land-value benchmark.
Vacant house lots vs houses26,855 vacant residential lots (3,772 acres) vs 21,060 single-family houses
Median single-family market value $39,220. 11,960 of the 21,060 houses carry the roll's REDUCTION flag, which the layer does not define.
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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 own the most valuable ground in Youngstown, and two land-reutilization programs own the most parcels. YSU's 599 parcels ($343M) are worth more than the school district, the City, the County and the housing authority put together. The City's land-reutilization program and the Mahoning County Land Reutilization Corporation (the county land bank) together hold about 4,270 parcels, mostly vacant house lots in a city that has more vacant residential lots (26,855) than single-family houses (21,060). Figures are 2026 market values on the county roll for parcels with MUNICIP 'Youngstown', summed by owner name and its spelling variants. Exempt property is valued well below cost.
| Name | Type | Parcels in the city, 2026 market value |
|---|---|---|
| Youngstown State University (YSU Board of Trustees; State of Ohio for YSU) Titled variously 'YSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES' (271), 'STATE OF OHIO YSU' (260) and similar. The ten most valuable include 422 Wick Ave ($28.1M), 100 W Rayen Ave ($21.9M), 134 Lincoln ($20.5M) and 577 Fifth Ave ($20.3M). Wikipedia calls YSU the city's largest employer, about 11,000 students. |
Government | 599 parcels, 136 acres, $343.0MA |
| Youngstown City School District Board of Education Largest: 474 Bennington Ave ($21.2M, 13.95 ac), 731 S Hazelwood Ave ($20.3M), 940 Bryn Mawr ($14.1M, 29 ac). |
Government | 215 parcels, 267 acres, $114.7MA |
| City of Youngstown (excluding land-reutilization and conservancy holdings) Includes the Covelli Centre ($16.9M), 725 Poland Ave ($10.7M, 15.6 ac), City Hall and 131 parcels titled to the finance department. The City Land Conservancy separately holds 14 parcels, 1,391 acres ($4.0M). |
Government | 2,902 parcels, 1,270 acres, $60.2MA |
| City of Youngstown Land Reutilization Program 1,268 of them vacant residential lots (land use 500); 141 taken in since 2023. Average value under $700 a parcel. |
Government | 2,072 parcels, 337 acres, $1.39MA |
| Mahoning County Land Reutilization Corporation (county land bank) 1,913 vacant residential lots; 159 acquired since 2023. The county GIS also publishes a LANDBANK_DELINQUENT_PROPERTIES service. |
Government | 2,198 parcels, 293 acres, $1.17MA |
| State of Ohio (other than YSU) Includes the Ohio State Penitentiary ($52.2M, 210.6 ac) and 90 parcels of the Department of Transportation. |
Government | 423 parcels, 314 acres, $67.5MA |
| Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority (YMHA) Includes 131 W Boardman St downtown ($4.1M). Related tax-credit partnerships hold more, e.g. Wick Homes I LP (21 parcels, 20 houses). |
Government | 193 parcels, 104 acres, $42.8MA |
| Mahoning County (Board of Commissioners and county bodies) 120 Market St courthouse ($5.2M), 110 Fifth Ave ($13.0M), 222 Federal Plaza W ($4.8M, acquired Dec 2023). Includes the Community Corrections Association's 29 parcels. |
Government | 83 parcels, 75 acres, $42.4MA |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown (parcels titled to the bishop as trustee, and the diocesan property corporation) 196 parcels are titled to the bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown as trustee, 24 to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown Property Corporation, the rest to parishes. Catholic Cemeteries holds another 107 acres. |
Institution | 318 parcels, 262 acres, $32.2MA |
| United States of America 10 E Commerce St ($9.2M, 2.73 ac), 99 S Walnut St ($7.0M, 8.78 ac), 125 Market St ($5.3M). |
Government | 6 parcels, 13 acres, $21.7MA |
| Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District Mill Creek Park, inside the city's south-west. |
Government | 231 parcels, 352 acres, $6.6MA |
| Ohio Edison Co (FirstEnergy) Bought two Performance Place parcels for $9,162,480 on 11 Jul 2023 (roll). East Ohio Gas holds 33 parcels. |
Public company | 157 parcels, 332 acres, $8.6MA |
| Railroads (CSX, Youngstown & Austintown Railroad, Penn Central/P&LE/Conrail, Mahoning Valley Railway) CSX Transportation's 6 parcels carry $8.0M of it. Much railroad land is assessed by the state as utility property and may not be on the parcel layer. |
Private company | 24 parcels, 107 acres, $8.8MA |
| Western Reserve Port Authority Took title to 100 E Federal St ($2.8M) and 201 E Commerce St ($2.0M) on 16 Jan 2025 and to 101 E Federal and 101 E Boardman on 3 Sep 2025. These are the downtown blocks it now holds. |
Government | 45 parcels, 33 acres, $7.2MA |
| Tod Homestead Cemetery Association The largest single private open-land holding in the city. |
Institution | 5 parcels, 442 acres, $6.3MA |
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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.
Almost no new homes are built in Youngstown for sale, and its houses are cheap: the median 2026 market value of a single-family house on the roll is $39,220, and the median recorded price of a single-family sale in 2025 was $85,000 (945 sales with a price). The city does not appear in the Census Bureau's 2025, 2024, 2022 or 2019 annual place files of building permits, so no permit count is cited. What gets built is mostly subsidised infill and rehab by non-profits and tax-credit partnerships, on lots from the two land banks. The figures below count parcels held in each builder's name inside the city on the roll, not homes built; builders whose names are a person's full name are left out.
| Name | Type | Parcels held in the city, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) Non-profit; 97 of its parcels transferred since 2023, the most active builder-rehabber on the roll. |
Institution | 189 parcels (38 houses, 78 vacant lots)A |
| Wick Homes I LP and other tax-credit partnerships (North Heights Homes LP, Youngstown Jubilee Homes V LP) Lease-to-own single-family tax-credit developments; Wick Homes I LP alone holds 20 houses ($1.48M). |
Private company | 31 parcels (25 houses)A |
| Sure Rock Homes LLC | Private company | 17 parcels (11 houses)A |
| Jenkins Homes Inc | Private company | 14 parcels (11 houses)A |
| Habitat for Humanity of the Mahoning Valley Inc 6 vacant lots. |
Institution | 12 parcelsA |
| Lev Construction Inc All land use 500, valued at $5,010 together. |
Private company | 34 vacant lotsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Youngstown has almost no investment-grade office market. Its largest private commercial owners are a private-prison company, an industrial buyer that paid the year's biggest price, apartment owners, a hospital system and single-family-rental LLCs. Figures are 2026 market values on the county roll inside the city, with sale amounts as the roll records them.
| Name | Type | Parcels and 2026 market value |
|---|---|---|
| Corrections Corporation of America (CoreCivic) Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, 2240 Hubbard Rd: the city's most valuable parcel. |
Public company | 1 parcel, 72 acres, $67.9MA |
| FNLR Pinafore LLC Industrial parcels at 1500 Geoffrey Trl (land use 350, $14.2M) and 2701 Intertech Dr (land use 330, $3.9M), both transferred 14 Feb 2025, with sale amounts of $28,093,450 and $8,391,550: the largest recorded prices in the city since 2020. No source opened names who stands behind the LLC. |
Private company | 2 parcels, 43.9 acres, $18.1MA |
| Brandywine Apartments Owner Ltd 3000 Flo-Lor Dr, the largest private apartment holding on the roll (land use 403, 40+ units). |
Private company | 3 parcels, $12.4MA |
| Trivium Aluminum Packaging USA Corporation 1 Performance Place (transfer 6 Mar 2025). |
Private company | 3 parcels, 33.8 acres, $11.6MA |
| Youngstown Houses LLC, Youngstown Houses II LLC, Youngstown Houses III LLC The largest single-family-rental holding in the city. Youngstown Houses LLC 292 houses ($6.7M), II 101 ($2.5M), III 43. On 31 Mar 2025 Youngstown Houses II LLC took 69 parcels on one deed for $3.6M. Others: Youngstown Choice Homes LLC (65 houses, $4.3M, all transferred since 2023), Whitestone Investments LLP (50), Heritage Home Management LLC (35), Treadstone Properties LLC (31). Kadimak Realty holds 416 low-value parcels ($54K). |
Private company | 436 single-family parcels, $9.9MA |
| Westview Apartments Ohio LLC Other large apartment owners: International Towers I Ohio Ltd (downtown, $5.2M), Gander Properties Ltd ($4.6M), Campus Lofts LLC (235 Wick Ave, $9.7M student housing), LHU Flats at Wick LP (bought for $4.41M, 27 Jan 2023). |
Private company | 70 parcels, 25.7 acres, $4.1MA |
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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.
- Who stands behind FNLR Pinafore LLC, FNB Youngstown LLC, West 34 Investors LLC and Youngstown Stambaugh Hotel LLC. No filing naming their members was opened.
- Whether railroad and utility operating property (CSX, Norfolk Southern, FirstEnergy lines) is fully on the parcel layer. Ohio assesses public-utility property separately, so the landowner figures for them are floors.
- The City's ACFR principal-taxpayer table. The Ohio Auditor of State (robots Disallow /) and the City's site (DNS failure) could not be read.
- Why the Ohio State Penitentiary parcel names both the State and the City, and what the 22 Jul 2025 transfer was. No deed was read (Recorder index via Fidlar not used).
- The Realty Tower identification on the roll: the news names YO Properties 47 LLC as owner, and the roll's YO Properties 47 parcels sit at 47 Federal Plaza, but no single source ties the parcel number to the building.
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Sources
- Mahoning County GIS, PUBLIC_WEBSITE_CADASTRAL MapServer layer 2 'PROPERTY BOUNDARIES' (owner, land use, 2026 market values, sale date and amount); 60,432 rows with MUNICIP 'Youngstown', queried 3 Nov 2026. The public viewer (gisapp.mahoningcountyoh.gov/mahgis/) shows no disclaimer. — Mahoning County, Ohio (GIS / Auditor data) · openA
- Mahoning County Auditor robots.txt (Pivot Point notice; ClaudeBot disallowed) — Mahoning County Auditor / Pivot Point · blockedA
- Recorder: Schedule of Fees (copies $2.00/page; recording $39 first two pages from 1 Jan 2026; office at 120 Market Street) — Mahoning County Recorder · openA
- Youngstown, Ohio — Wikipedia · openA
- Metropolitan Tower (Youngstown) — Wikipedia · openA
- Wick Building — Wikipedia · openA
- Realty Building explosion — Wikipedia · openA
- 'We're done': Downfall of downtown Realty Tower complete (27 Sep 2024) — The Vindicator · openA
- Covelli Centre — Wikipedia · openA
- Northeast Ohio Correctional Center — Wikipedia · openA
- Ohio State Penitentiary — Wikipedia · openA
- Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, places in the Midwest Region, annual 2025 (mw2025a.txt); Youngstown city not listed (also absent from 2024, 2022, 2019 files) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Vindicator Terms of Service — The Vindicator (Ogden Newspapers) · openA
- The Business Journal Terms & Conditions — The Business Journal · openA