Plans have emerged for a second new 10-pin bowling alley in Dundee – more than a decade after the city’s last centre shut down.
Hollywood Bowl is hoping to open the new 20-lane facility in a former gym.
The activity centre would also offer amusement arcades and food and drink options.
If it goes ahead, it would be the second such attraction to open in the city in the coming months.
Plans have already been approved for 29 bowling lanes as part of a family entertainment centre at Kingsway West Retail Park, in the former Toys R Us.
Jobs for that facility, to be run by Tenpin, are being advertised and it is set to open later this year.
Up to 50 positions are expected to be created.
Where would Hollywood Bowl Dundee be?
Hollywood Bowl is eyeing up the former Fit4Less gym at Douglasfield, and another vacant unit next door, for its 10-pin bowling centre.
The site is next door to the Odeon cinema at Kingsway East Leisure Park, also known as Eclipse Leisure Park.
The Fit4Less gym, owned by Energie Group Scotland, closed suddenly last July – while the second unit has been empty for a number of years.
The park is also home to a Domino’s pizza takeaway and a Mecca Bingo.
When would Hollywood Bowl Dundee open?
Hollywood Bowl, which employs 2,200 people, says it intends on opening its Dundee centre in early 2024.
The firm says the Dundee development will look similar to its centre in Liverpool, which opened last month.
A spokesperson for the Hollywood Bowl Group, which has a centre in Dunfermline, said: “We are excited to bring the unique family entertainment and competitive socialising experience of Hollywood Bowl to Dundee.
“We are in the early planning stages for transforming the current site at Eclipse Leisure Park, with the aspiration to open to guests in early 2024.
“Once complete Hollywood Bowl Dundee will offer affordable family entertainment and feature 20 10-pin bowling lanes and the latest and classic amusement arcades as well as tasty food and drink.”
Dundee’s last 10-pin bowling centre, at The Stack Leisure Park in Lochee, closed in 2011.
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