Top retailers like Michael's, Victoria's Secret, the Dollar Tree and Marshall's are located within the mall. This open-air mall has almost a million square feet of retail space. Opened in 2007, this new mall has a similar look to the Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix. In modern times, Casa Grande is still home to the Casa Grande Cotton Kings baseball team.įor shopping options, residents can visit the Promenade at Casa Grande. When the Giants moved on, the training location was turned into the Francisco Grande Hotel & Golf Resort. In more recent years, Casa Grande was transformed into the home of the spring training spot for the San Francisco Giants. During its operation, the camp was hoe to famous individuals like baseball player Kenichi Zenimura and actor Pat Morita. It was named the Gila River War Relocation Center.
During World War II, a Japanese-American relocation camp was built near the community. There are darker sides to the town's history as well. During the New Deal, it was even the site of a collective farm society. By 1915, the town was officially incorporated as a city. It managed to gradually reinvent itself as agricultural businesses grew in the area. After the mining boom disappeared in the 1890s, Casa Grande was nearly abandoned. For the first few decades, the town grew slowly as wildfires ravaged the wooden town.
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