The venue is connected to the south end of EverBank Stadium and shares space with a "flex field" indoor practice facility for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

After a city council meeting held in January 2010, renovations plans were placed on hold, however the demolition of "Kid Kampus" continued with the space becoming a grassy field by 2011.

In early 2015, Shahid Khan, owner of Jaguars, proposed a plan to develop the eastern area of Downtown Jacksonville.

With the success of the Everbank Field renovations, Khan developed new plans for the Shipyards area, which were ultimately approved by the city.

[8] Initial design concepts saw the amphitheater as an outdoor, covered venue featuring a mezzanine and balcony; with the practice area being a separate building.

Construction was set to begin in July 2016[9] however financial restrictions and permits pushed the groundbreaking back to August 2016.

The fabric roofing (similar to Ashe Stadium) provides natural ventilation and daylight and helps create dramatic LED lighting effect.

The tapings were held behind closed doors with no outside spectators; they used non-competing wrestlers and crew to serve as the live audience.

[18][19] After over a month's worth of tapings were done at an "undisclosed location" to prevent fans from showing up (later revealed to be the Nightmare Factory training complex in Norcross, Georgia),[19] AEW returned to Daily's Place to hold its pay-per-view Double or Nothing on May 23 (with TIAA Bank Field hosting a Stadium Stampede match as the main event), re-located from Las Vegas due to the pandemic.

[20][21] From that point, Daily's Place became AEW's home base, with all subsequent episodes of Dynamite, Dark, and pay-per-views originating from there during the pandemic period, with fans returning during the summer of 2020 at first at limited capacity, then gradually increasing as time went on.