The Laredo Ballpark project was first approved by the city council and was voted in favor of (with 61.32% of the votes in favor and 38.68% against) constructing it with money collected by a .25% sales tax increase for the LEC since 2004 of which there is a surplus of about $18 million. The project consisted of building a new multiuse
Baseball field near the
Laredo Energy Arena (now Sames Auto Arena). On December 9, 2011, it was announced that the stadium would be named Uni-Trade Stadium, after Uni-Trade Forwarding LLC, a local
freight forwarder. The park opened on May 17, 2012, with the Lemurs defeating the defending American Association champion
Grand Prairie AirHogs 5–1 in front of a crowd of 5,923. Despite posting winning records in each of their five seasons, including the 2015 American Association championship, Lemurs attendance plummeted from 187,845 in 2012 (fourth in a 14-team league) to just 41,955 in 2016, lowest in the league. Less than three weeks prior to the 2017 season, the Lemurs left the American Association and folded as result of a lawsuit between owner Arianna Torres and other members of Laredo Baseball Holdings, the Lemurs' ownership group. Torres allegedly accumulated over $500,000 of debts as well. After the stadium sat empty for the 2017 season, the
Rojos del Águila de Veracruz of the Triple-A
Mexican League relocated to the region and took the name of the
Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos, a franchise that previously played on both sides of the US-Mexico border (Laredo and
Nuevo Laredo) from 1985 to 2004. The team splits their home games between Uni-Trade Stadium and
Parque la Junta on the Mexican side. ==Field==