Fort Worth Business Press

April 21-27, 2008 edition, News in Brief, page 4

Arlington officially bowled over

By Betty Dillard

The relocation of the United States Bowling Congress from Milwaukee to Arlington is one frame closer to completion with the group’s purchase of the former Raytheon building at 621 Six Flags Drive from Holt Lunsford Commercial.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to Brett Campbell and Andrew Beckman of Glacier Commercial Realty LP who represented the bowling organization, the purchase is the largest single tenant office sale in Arlington since 1994.
The 103,772-square-foot Class A building sits on 6.4 acres and will anchor the international bowling campus, a joint venture between the United States Bowling Congress and the Arlington-based Bowling Proprietor’s Association of America.

Negotiations are under way for a small parcel that separates the groups’ properties. Once the site is complete, the nine-acre campus will include a $3 million, 20,000-square-foot international training and bowling testing facility and possibly even the Bowling Hall of Fame, which is currently in St. Louis.

The 2.3 million-member organization will move from Wisconsin later this year and bring approximately 230 jobs to the area.