New bar stools and flooring at Game Time Sports Bar & Grill, located at 850 Foote Ave., Jamestown. The restaurant and bar reopened Monday following the COVID-19 pandemic. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

For those looking to enjoying a cold one and dinner at Game Time Sports Bar & Grill, you’re in luck.

For those looking to bowl a few frames at the Jamestown Bowling Company, you’re going to need more patience.

Last week, the restaurant and bar located at the same spot as the bowling alley, 850 Foote Ave., Jamestown, reopened for the first time since March following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the bowling alley hasn’t been given the green light yet by state officials to reopen.

Jim Mee, Jamestown Bowling Company and Game Time Sports Bar & Grill owner, said he hasn’t been given any notification by state officials about when bowling alleys might be allowed to reopen.

He just checks the New York Forward website each day to see if anything has changed.

New carpet, flooring and rails installed at Jamestown Bowling Company, located at 850 Foote Ave., Jamestown. Bowling alleys are still not allowed to reopen in New York following the COVID-19 pandemic. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

“New York state lumped us in with gyms and movie theaters,” Mee said. “In a lot of states, bowling is available. Pennsylvania has been open for awhile.”

Mee said he heard a rumor that maybe toward the end of August they will be allowed to reopen the bowling alley. However, he hasn’t been given any official word or guidance from state officials.

“It’s a waiting game,” he said. “i just reopened the restaurant and bar here (July 27). We’ve been fairly busy, but not enough to make it year-round.”

Mee said the restaurant and bar is open Monday through Thursday 4-10 p.m., 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

Mee said the summer months are usually slower than the fall and winter for bowling. He said most of his leagues start in September. He added that they will take all the safety precautions needed to reopen once state officials give the green light.

Game Time Sports Bar & Grill reopened for dinner Monday, but the Jamestown Bowling Company hasn’t been given the green light to reopen by New York state officials. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

“It will be a little different, but once we get the criteria, we will be ready to go,” he said. “We can’t fight it. We have to go with the flow, but people want to bowl. It’s really up in the air. We’re anxious to know what is going to happen.”

Since being forced to close in March, Mee said he spent $35,000 to $40,000 remodeling the bowling alley and the restaurant and bar. He said there’s new wood flooring, carpet and rails in the bowling alley. Meanwhile, there’s new bar stools, wood flooring, booth upholstery and window treatments in the restaurant and bar.

Mee also said he installed a new air purification system that he did specifically to improve the air quality in the facility following the COVID-19 pandemic. When he first heard Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanting new filters installed at malls in order to reopen, Mee called the business that assist him with his heating and air conditioning needs. He said his service representative told him that thee type of filters Cuomo wants installed a malls wouldn’t work at the bowling alley. So instead he installed a new Reme Halo air purifiers.

“It’s a pretty neat system. It was easy to install,” he said. “I probably wouldn’t have done it (before COVID-19 pandemic) It was something I wasn’t even aware of. It’s more than a filter could do.”