Venue: Baxter Arena
Address: 2425 South 67th Street
Town: Omaha, US

Baxter Arena (original working name UNO Community Arena) is a sports arena in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Owned and operated by the University of Nebraska Omaha, it serves as the home of several of the university's intercollegiate athletic teams, known as the Omaha Mavericks. The arena opened to the public on October 23, 2015, when the hockey team defeated Air Force 4-2. In 2012, Omaha mayor Jim Suttle announced that the Omaha Civic Auditorium, which originally opened in 1954, would close in 2014 due to excessive maintenance costs. The closing of the Auditorium would leave Omaha without a mid-sized indoor venue, and would also have a major impact on the Mavericks ice hockey team. While the team played its home games at the city's main indoor venue, then known as CenturyLink Center Omaha, it regularly practiced at the Auditorium. It was already one of the few NCAA Division I hockey teams without a dedicated practice facility. Additionally, the 14,000-seat CenturyLink Center was increasingly being seen as too large for the hockey program's needs. The university then began planning for a new arena, selecting a site at the Aksarben Village development, which has become integrated with the UNO campus in recent years. The arena received approval from the University of Nebraska Board of Regents on March 15, 2013. It was originally budgeted at $75 million, but the final cost came in at $81.6 million. Nearly half of the cost was expected to be covered by donations, and UNO announced in June 2015 that it had sold the naming rights to Baxter Auto, a group of auto dealerships in Omaha and the surrounding region, for $400,000 per year over 10 years. The arena was expected to more than cover its required debt service. UNO's financial projections assumed that the arena would host only four non-university events per year. However, the venue is available to lease for events that would have been hosted by the Auditorium before its closure. At least three area school districts, in