Bowling kingpin scores big

A newly opened bowling center nearly the size of a football field is about to get even bigger.

Patrick Ciniello, the Naples-based chairman of bowling equipment giant QubicaAMF, says he's acquired two acres on the north side of HeadPinz in Fort Myers. When it opened near Southwest Florida International Airport in July, the 48,000-square-foot HeadPinz was an instant hit with families and corporate event planners. It has 28 lanes of bowling, 45 arcade games, a two-story laser tag arena, an aerial ropes course, a restaurant and a bar.

“It exceeded our original projections,” says Ciniello. “It's done very well since the day it opened.”