Int'l Bowling Museum & HOF To Move From St. Louis To Arlington
Int'l Bowling Museum & HOF officials "plan to move their facility" from St. Louis to Arlington, Texas, to become part of the int'l bowling campus announced in March, which will include bowling corporate offices and a product testing and training facility, according to Suzanne Marta of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Officials said that the 18,000-square-foot museum, which will include "interactive exhibits on bowling history," is "expected to open within 18 months" in Arlington. The U.S. Bowling Congress (USBC), currently with HQs in Milwaukee, will "bring about 200 jobs with its relocation" to the $14M bowling campus. Bowling Proprietors Association of America Exec Dir John Berglund said that the campus will "help raise visibility for the sport and allow industry groups to reduce costs and better coordinate projects" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/10).
BALLPARK BOON? In St. Louis, Jake Wagman reported the museum's BOD last week voted to "sell its land to their neighbor, the Cardinals, who intend to use it as part of the stalled Ballpark Village development." Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III Friday said that the team has been "in negotiations to buy the museum land for more than two years." But the dynamics of the talks "changed last year, after City Hall opened the possibility that eminent domain could be used to acquire the site." Wagman wrote the move is a "potential boon for Ballpark Village" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 6/7).
WIDE WORLD OF BOWLING: The USBC will hold seven Open Championships and six Women's Championships from 2011 through 2029 in a privately-funded bowling center at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando. The agreement begins with the 2011 Open Championships (USBC). Disney officials said that the stadium would be open to the public "when not used for tournaments," and that an "unnamed company will build and operate the 160,000-square-foot stadium." Disney officials said that it is "too soon to talk about the facility's name or its cost" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 6/10).
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