Merle Hay Mall's planned $30 million arena will be home to Drake University's hockey team and the Iowa Demon Hawks soccer team. The arena will seat 3,500 people and also will be able to host ...

Named for a car dealership, the Akins Ford Arena is a gleaming and still-slightly-under-construction monolith that will become a working hockey arena and concert venue. It will also house the ...

He opened it in 2021 after the mall and the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League announced plans to build the arena in the shell of the mall's former Younkers department store.