[1] It opened on 7 December 1988 on the corner of Smith Street and Parklands Drive, Southport on the Gold Coast, Queensland for nine million dollars.

[2] Plans to build the complex began in 1983 when the Racing Minister for Queensland, Mr Russell Hinze, visited the Gold Coast.

[3] The decision was made to provide improved facilities at another location and State Government land and was selected opposite Griffith University.

[14][15] On 1 February 2013 the remaining part of the site was formally designated as the athletes' village for the 2018 Commonwealth Games[16][17] and was declared a Priority Development Area (PDA) by the Government of Queensland.

[19][20][non-primary source needed] These stories and ephemera relating to the complex were donated to the City of Gold Coast Local Studies Library.