BEL-MARK LANES

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- The former Bel-Mark Lanes building has sold for $22.5 million as the location progresses toward becoming a new Tesla dealership. Connor Properties Michigan, an Ohio-based developer, bought the building for $8.5 million in early 2022 and sold the property to a New York buyer for a little more than $22.5 million on May 31, according to public records from Scio Township.

Now the next step for the building that has housed Bel-Mark Lanes on Jackson Road for 46 years has the official stamp of approval from Scio Township leaders. On Tuesday, March 8, the township board unanimously OK’d plans to covert the bowling alley into a Tesla dealership that developers say will be one of the largest in the Midwest. The proposal from Ohio-based Dealership Acquisitions encountered little resistance in front of the Scio Township Planning Commission in late December. The electric vehicle hub is permitted under current zoning, and township officials are obligated to approve the project if it meets local standards, township planning consultants said as the commission voted to OK the plan. I hope someone else steps forward and comes up with another bowling alley.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- For Marc Smoltz, closing Bel-Mark Lanes is “bittersweet.”Bel-Mark Lanes, 3530 Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, announced in late January that it is currently in its last season, closing permanently in April. The owners have sold the facility to an Ohio-based developer who plans to turn the bowling alley into a Tesla dealership.

This will be Bel-Mark Lanes’ last season, according to the Smoltz family.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Plans to replace a longtime Ann Arbor area bowling alley with what developers are calling “one of the Midwest’s largest Tesla dealerships” have moved swiftly past a first hurdle. Less than a week after the announcement from the owners of Bel-Mark Lanes, 3530 Jackson Road in Scio Township, that the 45-year-old building could be sold, the township Planning Commission OK’d site plans for the electric vehicle hub slated to take its place.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Bel-Mark Lanes may soon become a Tesla dealership, the bowling alley announced on social media Tuesday. Although Smoltz did not originally plan on selling the bowling alley, he was approached last year with an offer that “was enough to make us consider it,” he said. Prior to the Smoltz family, the bowling alley was owned and operated by Ron Cockfield, Jim Moceri and other members of their family. What’s planned for the bowling alley? Read more from The Ann Arbor News:Ann Arbor middle school closed Wednesday, Dec. 15, after incident at schoolNo.