Residencial Las Casas

[2] Residencial Las Casas was built during the 1950s, after the military had left the area, with middle class customers in mind.

One of its earliest residents was Puerto Rican actress Míriam Colón and activist Antonia Pantoja.

[3] During the late 1970s, on September 26, 1978, resident Luciano Rivera made the headlines nationally, as he was one of a few survivors of an aviation crash, Air Caribbean Flight 309, that happened nearby; six people were killed when a Beech 18 belonging to Air Caribbean airlines crashed in Barrio Obrero, at a bar in front of the residencial, trying to land at Isla Verde after a domestic flight from Aguadilla.

[4] By the early 1980s, salsa singer Cano Estremera, a resident,[5] began bringing his musician friends over to practice at Las Casas.

[citation needed] Estremera would go on to become a legendary singer and international super-star who, in 2003, made a CD commemorating his twenty years in the music industry.