Complex sentence: The complex opened on March 22,1975 as the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village and has been expanded and renamed at other times over the years: to Walt Disney World Village in 1977; to Disney Village Marketplace in 1989 and to Downtown Disney in 1997.
Split into simpler sentences: The complex opened on March 22,1975 as the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village and has been expanded and renamed at other times over the years. It was first renamed Walt Disney World Village in 1977; then to Disney Village Marketplace in 1989; and afterward to Downtown Disney in 1997.