Brooklyn Bowl will continue to expand even as the live events industry dissolves before our eyes. The popular bowling alley/restaurant/concert venue franchise will reportedly open a new location in Philadelphia, PA next year, according to a report shared by Philadelphia Business Journal on Tuesday.

The report states Brooklyn Bowl will partner with Live Nation Entertainment to open a new 35,000-square-foot location in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia at 1009 Canal St., next to the already-existing Fillmore. The proposed location comes with a pre-existing building that formerly housed a nightclub/bowling alley-type business, making for the perfect foundation for the next Brooklyn Bowl. The new location is expected to feateure up to 26 bowling lanes and enough space for 1,000 fans to attend a show, slightly larger than Brooklyn Bowl’s New York City location. The new venue could open as early as late 2021.

A spokesperson for Live Nation confirmed their role as partners for the forthcoming Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, but Brooklyn Bowl did not comment on the report.

News of the next Brooklyn Bowl venue opening comes at a dangerous time for the live music industry, as government officials across the country continue to put a chokehold on event promoters for the return of live music as COVID-19 remains a serious threat in major markets across the United States. Brooklyn Bowl owners had hoped to open their new Brooklyn Bowl Nashville location in March, but all concerts were scrapped or postponed with the city-wide shutdown of indoor concert events that same month. The venue has since been forced to hold occasional fan-less concerts which are broadcasted via virtual webcast.

Earlier this year Brooklyn Bowl co-owner Peter Shapiro spoke with Rolling Stone about the uncertain future of the concert business in America, where the Fare Thee Well promoter didn’t sound very optimistic about what might come of the fragile industry if venues are still forced to remain closed heading into the 2020 fall and winter months.

[H/T Philadelphia Business Journal]