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The D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment voted yesterday to approve plans for an upscale bowling alley on the ground floor of the Georgetown Park Mall, writes Georgetown Patch. The vote comes after the mall’s developer and residents of the condos that sit above it came to an agreement on measures to insulate the condos from the noise of the bowling alley.

As we reported first in October, this won’t be just any bowling alley, but rather a Pinstripes, a high-end Italian restaurant that seats 100 complemented by 12 bowling lanes and three bocce courts. Pinstripes currently has four locations in the MIdwest; the Georgetown outpost would be the company’s first foray into the Mid-Atlantic and only the city’s second bowling alley. (Well, there’s a third, but it’s at the White House.)

In January a Georgetown ANC voted the project down, saying that they remained concern with the noise that could be produced. But in the two weeks since, company representatives and residents agreed to a plan under which the bowling alley would be designed and built so that the residents above it can’t hear it.

The bowling alley still has to jump through a few other regulatory hoops and be built out before anyone can take advantage of the recreational opportunity in Georgetown.