the viaero center, previously known as the kearney event center and firstier event center, is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in kearney, nebraska. it opened on november 2000 as the tri-city arena. it is home to the 2016 ushl clark cup champions tri-city storm ice hockey, and former teams, the nebraska cranes basketball and tri-city diesel arena football. seating capacity for hockey, basketball and arena football is 4,047.