Ray Lewis, local investors to open 'high-energy' restaurant, bowling alley in Hunt Valley

A new 63,000-square-foot family entertainment venue backed by Ray Lewis will open at the Hunt Valley Towne Centre early next year.

MVP Entertainment will boast 38 bowling lanes, an upscale dining and express restaurant, a sports bar, coffee bar, two high-tech golf simulators and a memorabilia shop.

The project is a partnership of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Lewis and local residents Marc and Laura Rosen. The group said in a statement it hopes to eventually expand MVP Entertainment into other professional sports cities.

The Baltimore Business Journal reported on Lewis’ interest in the project in June. MVP Entertainment marks the second hospitality project for Lewis, who was previously the namesake of a shuttered barbecue restaurant in Canton.

“Whether you’re dining in our premier restaurant and bar, attending a private event in our VIP lounge, or just bowling with family or friends — MVP Entertainment will be exciting and high energy,” Laura Rosen said in the statement.

Hunt Valley Towne Centre, anchored by the state’s first Wegmans grocery store, has quickly become one of Baltimore County’s top retail destinations since being transformed by Owings Mills’ Greenberg Gibbons in 2005. The 980,000-square-foot “Main Street-style” development includes a Dick’s Sporting Goods, California Pizza Kitchen and a soon-to-open Best Buy.



(bizjournals.com)