It is located a few minutes driving distance from both the tourist and hotels areas of the Condado and Isla Verde neighborhoods, and from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport.
Named after Puerto Rican independence advocate Luis Lloréns Torres, the complex is the largest housing and apartments complex in Puerto Rico, with some 2,600 residents accounted during the 2000 census.
For decades, the residencial, along with others such as Residencial Nemesio Canales and Torres de Sabana, for example, has been a focus of the illegal drug trade in Puerto Rico, and there have been periodic rivalries between cartels operating at Luis Lloréns Torres and those other residenciales, as well as with cartels from other areas of the island.
During 2011, Puerto Rico Islanders association football players Marco Velez, Alexis Rivera and Noah Delgado visited to teach children of the residencial association football skills.
[9] And, in 2013, members of rival drug gangs that operate in the residencial held a meeting to agree to a peace accord.