The development was initially meant as a product of Kuwaiti investment and was known as the Global Gateway Logistics City.

KGLI accepted PDII's proposal and signed a memorandum of agreement with the Clark International Airport Corporation regarding the project in April 2008.

The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in August of the same year.

[1] GGDC assumed operational control over the project's development in 2014 following a legal dispute with PDII over alleged breaches by the latter over the engineering, procurement and management (EPCM) agreement the two companies entered.

The move was approved by the Philippine Competition Commission on October 18, 2017[4] and the acquisition was completed by November 14 of the same year.