Planned as part of the West Village Shopping Center in Beaverton, construction on the newer and larger $13 million bowling and entertainment facility is expected to start in early 2008, with a planned 2009 opening, according to Daniel Kirkwood, vice president of Kirkwood & Kirkwood Inc. The family business opened its first $10 million Big Al's in September 2006 as part of the Eastside Spectrum in east Vancouver on the east side of Southeast 164th Avenue and north of 20th Street.

Favorable response to the Vancouver facility prompted plans for the second Big Al's, Kirkwood said.

"The community has really responded well" to the center, he said, though he would not disclose revenue figures for the venue.

"We've met all of our performance expectations," Kirkwood said.

The Vancouver facility serves 12 bowling leagues, four days a week and employs 180 full- and part-time workers as one of several businesses managed by Kirkwood & Kirkwood Inc. The company is also the general contractor and developer of the $30 million Eastside Spectrum Addition, a four-building retail complex under construction just west of Big Al's.

The new Big Al's facility will be an anchor tenant in the West Village Shopping Center, planned on a 15-acre site formerly occupied by the Teufel Nursery on Northwest Barnes Road, northwest of the intersection of Oregon state Highway 217 and Highway 26.

The complex is being developed by Foundation Real Estate Development, headed by Bruce Wood, one of the developers of Bridgeport Village, a Beaverton shopping complex hailed for its innovative "lifestyle center" design.

"We won't own the site," Kirkwood said, adding that his company plans to eventually develop two or three additional Big Al's centers in the Portland-Vancouver area.

At 66,000 square feet, the new Big Al's in Beaverton will be about 6,000 square feet larger than the first one, Kirkwood said, with a larger arcade and a second-story "sky box" overlooking the sports bar. The original Big Al's is a one-level facility.

Like Vancouver's Big Al's, the Beaverton facility will operate 30 traditional lanes and 12 "lounge-style" lanes. It will also feature a 7,000-square-foot sports bar and grill with "stadium-style" seating that faces a giant television screen.

Cami Joner covers real estate. She can be reached at 360-759-8018 or via e-mail at cami.joner@columbian.com