Austin Bowling Center Making Way for Apartments

Bowling alleys have felt the pinch in the last few years. Covid caused a lot of bowling centers to strike out; that, and the fact that a lot of the land bowling alleys are on has gone up in price, making them targets for other uses.

The latter is the likely reason Austin’s Highland Lanes will be closing at the end of the year. The Austin Business Journal reports a 300-unit multifamily development is expected to take the bowling alley’s place. The owners lease the land and their lease is up at the end of the year.

The proposed development is a vertical mixed-use project with 12%, or 36 units, reserved for affordable housing, in addition to 4,000 square feet of commercial use space. The nearly 3-acre tract was appraised at about $7.3 million by the county appraiser in 2023.

The Highland Lanes owners ran another bowling center, Dart Bowl, but it closed during the pandemic and never reopened.

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