The station opened with the extension of the CTS Rapid Transit to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on November 15, 1968.

As originally constructed, the headhouse on the northwest side of the parking lot included an escalator to a tunnel leading under the Norfolk Southern (formerly New York Central Railroad) tracks and the eastbound Red Line tracks to a second escalator connecting the platform.

The tunnel also extended under the westbound Red Line tracks to another station entrance on a cul-de-sac at the eastern end of Valleyview Avenue.

The former tunnel was replaced with a bridge over the tracks and public art was installed in parts of the station.

To make the station accessible compliant, three elevators, one at each entrance, and one connecting the bridge to the platform, were installed.