It’s been decades since the upper valley had a bowling alley but that’s about to change as a local man is in the midst of creating one in Snowmass. Mark Reece recently signed a lease on a roughly 6,000-square-foot subterranean space below Venga Venga, situated along Fanny Hill, said commercial real estate agent Ruth Kruger, who brokered the deal. “We’ve been working on [finding a space] for three years,” she said. “It’s hard to make financial sense in doing a bowling alley.” But Reece and the owner of the building, Lance Hool, have reached a rent price that apparently will pencil out for the start-up business. He said he’s been eyeing the space, and negotiating with Hool and his representatives, for almost three years. “I was trying to capitalize on the right price for that space,” Reece said. “We couldn’t make ends meet. … We were willing to pay [a price] and they were willing to come down.”Reece said he has received zoning approvals from the town of Snowmass Village and will soon submit a building permit application. He said he hopes to be open by the summer.
Stewart Seeligson’s business education and diverse real estate experience set him apart from other real estate brokers in the Telluride region.