Carolyn Fabbro will soon be looking for a new job. Fiesta Lanes, the bowling alley where she has been working for the last 37 years, will be closing its doors on May 1.”I’m feeling sad. You think you start a job and you’ll be there forever,” said Fabbro, a Columbus resident who started working for the alley in 1963.The six business owners were not given the opportunity to renew their land lease, after occupying the building at 1291 W. Lane Ave. since 1958.League bowlers also are disappointed about the closing because of the leisure and friendship that bowling provides. “This to us feels like home, everybody knows everybody,” said Melody Miller, president of the Independent Women Bowling League.Miller has been president for four years, but the women’s league has been bowling there for 30 or 40 years, she said.”We only have six teams and we only have four that would leave (and go to another bowling alley),” Miller said.Mary McDonald is the treasurer and secretary of the league and has been with the league for 16 years.”A lot of people who bowl here, also work here,” McDonald said.Sam McCreary, owner, manager and head mechanic at Fiesta Lanes, started working for the alley in 1964 and took the offer to become part owner in 1978.McCreary is the youngest owner at age 54; the other owners range from 71 to 58 years old.McCreary said he has heard rumors that the landowners died and their grandchildren wanted to sell the land.”This three-or-four acre land was valued at $1.7 million,” McCreary said. “The property became so valuable with the Schott and the soccer fields.”McCreary said they had a net-lease, meaning they were in charge of the up-keep, taxes, air conditioning and heating. Fiesta Lanes still paid $10,000 a month in rent plus $900 a month to Ohio State for the east parking lot, McCreary said.”When I first got in, it was about $3,300 a month and the lot to the east of us was $300 a month,” he said.McCreary is not sure what the land will be used for, but he has heard that it could be used for an office building, strip mall, parking lot or even a hotel.”It’s too bad that it’s closing, because it’s relatively close and a safe place for students to hang out,” said Susan Tomlinson a sophomore landscape horticulture major.