Originally private property, the the onion-domed building became a hotel/resort in the late 1940s and then townhomes followed on the surrounding 20 acres as well as a gated luxury-home community, Casa Blanca Estates.⁠

Architect Mark Candelaria is interviews in the article as he recently revisited Casa Blanca, one of his first projects in Scottsdale in the early '80s. ⁠