The Board of Trustees were motivated to provide the two programs with facilities that exceeded the Atlantic Coast Conference standards since Shea Field was inadequate.

[3] The complex development was a part of the ongoing Greater Heights campaign, which are efforts to improve Boston College's athletic programs.

[1] The Pete Frates Center is a 31,000 square feet (2,900 m2) indoor practice facility exclusive to the baseball and softball teams.

[9] The Frates Center includes batting cages and pitching mounds for year-round use, a state-of-the-art improvement over the program's previous conditions.

Just three years prior, players had to shovel out the snowed-in batting cage in the tunnel to the Beacon Street Garage during the winter months.