Bowlers Journal International - April 2008 - (Page 84)

INTELLIGENCER A BIG ANNIVERSARY FOR ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS FOUNDER KEVIN MILLS INCORPORATES HIS DESIGN FIRM, WHILE EXPANDING HIS OFFICE SPACE. HOW DOES A FIRM CELEBRATE 25 a social atmosphere. PBA includes a lanes. The Georgian Court University years in the bowling business? For set of rules, a standardized format, campus itself has been designated a Kevin Mills and his Architectural pre-designed entry blanks and score National Historic Landmark in that it Concepts, the answer sheets, plus user-friendly possesses architectural, social and is to incorporate, while tournament software. cultural significance. also expanding its office A $400 sponsorship fee space. The changes are NYC GETS LUCKY STRIKE is required for each being made in the firm’s When you're renting space for $50 event, which serves to efforts to continue to a square foot, you tend to be very standardize events, proserve bowling, insure its selective about a prospective tenvide quality control, pay longevity in the industry ant. So when the very upscale New tournament operators and position the comYork City residential tower known and hosts, make future pany for future growth as 1 River Place announced that the improvements and provia new construction and first retail tenant it secured would tect the USBC and PBA remodels in the bowling be a "bowling alley," we can only brands. and family entertainment guess at the reaction. However, the businesses. In conjuncNATION'S OLDEST West Coast chain known as Lucky tion with its incorporaThe nation's oldest operStrike Lanes might just be perfect tion, the newly-appointational bowling center for the locale, especially when you ed Board consists of has been discovered, factor in the types of celebrities it KEVIN MILLS Mills, President; Robert and will be brought back attracts. "Our intention is to have at J. Klap, Vice President, to its gilded age elegance least one Lucky Strike in each of the five [NYC] boroughs," said founder by the Brunswick Foundation and and Rebekah Whitfield, Secretary/ Steven Foster. The new center is Georgian Court University. The 3Treasurer. The firm is located in the lane center, which was built in 1899 expected to open in the fall, and historic I.M. Pei building in downtown by the Brunswick Balke-Collender involved a 15-year-lease. Denver, Colo., and the expansion of Co., was housed on the campus of its office space is being accompathe University of Lakewood, N.J. GALLAGHER IS HUMBLED nied by an increase in staff. Although still operational, it lay Ed Gallagher, Brand Manager for EXPERIENCED TOURNEYS dormant for many decades and its Ebonite, spends most of the time The PBA Experience program is being existence was virtually unknown to behind the scenes enjoying the sucexpanded to include tournaments as the outside world. With the help of cesses of his many staff members. historian Chuck Pezzano, Brunswick a new turnkey element. Beginning in But he was the one in the spotlight concluded that the installation was October 2008, proprietors will have at the USBC Open Championships in the opportunity to include a PBA an irreplaceable piece February. After a tourExperience Tournament in their mix of bowling history, and nament-high 771 series of PBA and/or Experience offerings needed to be preserved. in Team, the 40-year-old for their local bowlers. An agree"It's like walking through righty returned to the ment between the USBC and PBA a door back into bowlAlbuquerque Convention created these standardized scratch Center and added 701 ing's past of more than events, which will offer a 4-5 hour in Singles and 669 in 100 years ago, and findone-day format, and include qualifyDoubles to take over the ing it part of the 'Gilded ing, match play, Experience lane patRegular All-Events lead Age'," said Pezzano. "This terns, established prize funds (based with 2141. "There was is a rare opportunity to on entries) and a basic set of rules a time when I used to link the past, present and and regulations. PBA Experience compete a lot, but now, future of bowling." Since Tournaments are designed to fit into most of my staff memit was built after the a proprietor's open time slots and bers don't even know I founding of the American offer "local bowlers" the opportubowl," said Gallagher, Bowling Congress in nity to enjoy a low-cost, fast-paced, who made his 13th USBC 1895, it conforms to the ED GALLAGHER PBA-style competitive experience in specifications of today's Open appearance. "Right 84 bowlers journal international APRIL 2008

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