Casa Linda Shopping Center

Casa Linda Plaza, its official name, was the brainchild of Carl Martin Brown and his son Howard D. Brown. The East Dallas family farm land of 600 plus acres was purchased in 1937. The abstract completed at that time traces the ownership of the land back to the original owner who had been rewarded the land for his service in the Battle Of San Jacinto by the then governor of Texas in 1836. The history of the land as it went from owner to owner was colorful. At one point part of the land was traded for a black female slave of 25 years of age. The Brown family still has the original abstract of 1937 in their possession and plans to gift it to a Dallas Museum in 2020 for safe keeping and for others to study it. This land was developed to become the premier place to live and shop at the Garland Road and Buckner Blvd Crossroads in East Dallas. Carl Brown started buying the land in the early 1930s and eventually owned over 1,000 acres of prime residential and commercial property in East Dallas. Building was started before World War II and resumed after Howard Brown returned from his active duty in WWII in February 1946. Due to the war, construction materials had been in short supply and Carl Brown waited until his son was home to help him renew their efforts to finish building the Plaza and additional homes surrounding it. At the point of building the center out and all the area homes

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