In 1991 the City of Homestead built the Sports Complex at a price tag of $22 million in order to provide a spring training facility for the Cleveland Indians.

The stadium was widely recognized as being state-of-the-art for the time period, as it included multiple practice facilities as well as dormitories for players.

The Indians had previously played in the Cactus League in Arizona but had signed a deal to make Homestead their long-term spring training home.

The city decided to immediately re-construct the stadium hoping that they could have it built for the 1994 spring training season in order for the Indians, or perhaps another team to use.

Homestead decided to continue re-building the stadium, assuming that at some point in the future they could lure another team to use it as their spring facility.

The facility hosted local youth and adult sports on the training grounds but the internal workings of the stadium such as bathrooms, electrical and plumbing had gone into disrepair.

The park was used for the City of Homestead's Fourth of July celebration until the Homestead-Miami Speedway took over the duties in 2010, attracting an exponentially larger crowd than ever before.