Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

The genesis of Brooklyn Bowl came after business partners Peter Shapiro and Charley Ryan took their staff out to lunch at a bowling alley. They recalled that the bowling was fun and allowed the staff to play like children play, but the food and the ambiance were lacking. With backgrounds in live music performance, in 2009, the two decided to open Brooklyn Bowl, a multi-purpose entertainment venue with a bowling alley, concert hall, bar, and restaurant in Brooklyn, New York.

The two largely took on the construction of the first Brooklyn Bowl on their own. Charley, who has known Dave since high school days in Lawrenceville, NJ, thought his owner’s rep skills may bring some value on their next project. He remarked, “I wasn’t qualified to do things on my own in the world of performance venues, but we did a good job guiding things on our own with what we knew on that first venue in Brooklyn, NY.”

“Adding PrayWorks to the team as our owner’s representative was a great move. Dave’s vast building experience quickly added value to the project.”  – Charley Ryan

In 2014, Ryan and Shapiro selected Las Vegas for the next Brooklyn Bowl, this time including Pray on the team. Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas is the largest tenant inside Caesars Entertainment’s $550 million retail, dining and entertainment district known as the LINQ, an open-air retail, dining and entertainment district, anchored by the world’s tallest Ferris wheel. The 78,000 square foot venue with 32 lanes of bowling, restaurants, bars and a concert hall is “One of the most incredible places on earth,” according to Rolling Stone magazine.

Dave Pray notes from a construction standpoint, it is distinguished from other commercial projects in large part due to the specialties of the audio-visual system, theatrical lighting, and performance audio systems. All of these systems required substantial interface with the high and low voltage systems. This work is complex and, as with most items electrical, “approximately right” doesn’t quite get it. Marry this piece with entrepreneurial owners, meaning new ideas right up to the day of grand opening, and you can imagine why an owner’s rep that had good access across all the various platforms was vital and able to add significant value.

The Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas team, which included the premier design firm, CRTKL, and a national builder McCarthy Building Companies, was able to put in place about $5,000,000 of work per month while managing approximately 180 change proposal requests. With Dave at the helm, of course they opened on time!

“Someone with Dave’s experience and collaboration skills can anticipate and solve problems before they even develop.”   – Charley Ryan

“An owner’s rep like Dave brings tighter control over decisions and manages scope better so the owner is much more confident, and vendors have much clearer decision paths. It eliminates the ‘he said/she said’ dynamic,” Charley added.

Charley raves, “Dave’s impact on the Las Vegas venue was so tangible that he has been part of the team since. His penchant for innovation will facilitate the infusion of lean construction and IPD methodologies into the latest effort. Dave is always looking for something new to add to what he already knows. He has an amazing work ethic, and he’s been on every side of things. PrayWorks was the owner’s rep for Brooklyn Bowl Nashville and is just beginning a Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia.

Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

The genesis of Brooklyn Bowl came after business partners Peter Shapiro and Charley Ryan took their staff out to lunch at a bowling alley. They recalled that the bowling was fun and allowed the staff to play like children play, but the food and the ambiance were lacking. With backgrounds in live music performance, in 2009, the two decided to open Brooklyn Bowl, a multi-purpose entertainment venue with a bowling alley, concert hall, bar, and restaurant in Brooklyn, New York.

The two largely took on the construction of the first Brooklyn Bowl on their own. Charley, who has known Dave since high school days in Lawrenceville, NJ, thought his owner’s rep skills may bring some value on their next project. He remarked, “I wasn’t qualified to do things on my own in the world of performance venues, but we did a good job guiding things on our own with what we knew on that first venue in Brooklyn, NY.”

“Adding PrayWorks to the team as our owner’s representative was a great move. Dave’s vast building experience quickly added value to the project.”  – Charley Ryan

In 2014, Ryan and Shapiro selected Las Vegas for the next Brooklyn Bowl, this time including Pray on the team. Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas is the largest tenant inside Caesars Entertainment’s $550 million retail, dining and entertainment district known as the LINQ, an open-air retail, dining and entertainment district, anchored by the world’s tallest Ferris wheel. The 78,000 square foot venue with 32 lanes of bowling, restaurants, bars and a concert hall is “One of the most incredible places on earth,” according to Rolling Stone magazine.

Dave Pray notes from a construction standpoint, it is distinguished from other commercial projects in large part due to the specialties of the audio-visual system, theatrical lighting, and performance audio systems. All of these systems required substantial interface with the high and low voltage systems. This work is complex and, as with most items electrical, “approximately right” doesn’t quite get it. Marry this piece with entrepreneurial owners, meaning new ideas right up to the day of grand opening, and you can imagine why an owner’s rep that had good access across all the various platforms was vital and able to add significant value.

The Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas team, which included the premier design firm, CRTKL, and a national builder McCarthy Building Companies, was able to put in place about $5,000,000 of work per month while managing approximately 180 change proposal requests. With Dave at the helm, of course they opened on time!

“Someone with Dave’s experience and collaboration skills can anticipate and solve problems before they even develop.”   – Charley Ryan

“An owner’s rep like Dave brings tighter control over decisions and manages scope better so the owner is much more confident, and vendors have much clearer decision paths. It eliminates the ‘he said/she said’ dynamic,” Charley added.

Charley raves, “Dave’s impact on the Las Vegas venue was so tangible that he has been part of the team since. His penchant for innovation will facilitate the infusion of lean construction and IPD methodologies into the latest effort. Dave is always looking for something new to add to what he already knows. He has an amazing work ethic, and he’s been on every side of things. PrayWorks was the owner’s rep for Brooklyn Bowl Nashville and is just beginning a Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia.