The Otago Women's Bowls Association set up its headquarters at Logan Park in the late 1940s and established a two-green complex.
The pavilion, now valued at $299,000, was officially opened by then Mayor of Dunedin Sir Clifford Skeggs in 1986.
The pavilion and facilities were debt free before the merger of the Otago Women's Bowls Association into Bowls Dunedin in the late 1990s.
After amalgamation it was decided that the centre did not need the two greens and they were taken over by the Dunedin City Council and are being used for car parks. The pavilion will be used by the Otago Polytechnic. Former Bowls Dunedin president Donella O'Dea supports the move.
''Time has moved on,'' she said.
''The centre has been overcome by the student area and we have been squeezed out.
''I'm pleased that the building will stay intact and the Otago Polytechnic will make good use of it.''
She said that the shift would make it easier for bowlers in Dunedin.
''Car parking was a nightmare five years ago and it is no better now,'' she said. ''A lot of our bowlers live in South Dunedin and the shift to the stadium will be a good move.''
The shift will have special meaning for O'Dea, because her late husband, Pat, had the vision to build the indoor stadium.
''More centre events are held at local clubs and the clubs benefit by having the bowlers use their greens,'' O'Dea said.
A life member and former president of Bowls Dunedin Margaret Malcolm put a lot of work into fundraising for the facilities at Logan Park and was disappointed by the shift.
''I was disappointed that we lost the two women's greens at Logan Park,'' she said.
With the Logan Park green next door, Dunedin had a three-green complex that was used to hold the Asia and Pacific Bowls in 1995.
''There is no longer a three-green complex in Dunedin,'' Malcolm said.
Before the amalgamation with the men the Otago Women's Bowls Association was debt-free.
''The men did not have their own facility and rented a small office in town,'' Malcolm said.
''It's a shame it has gone that way, but the men didn't want to use our facilities.''
Another former Bowls Dunedin president Jan Tucker would have liked the whole complex to have stayed the way it was.
''I found it very sad coming down here once the greens went,'' she said.
''I would have liked the whole complex to have stayed. It gave the women a base.
''When we played competitions we were all together at the centre greens,'' she said.
''Under the new system we don't get to see our fellow bowlers as often as we like. We feel a bit isolated.
''I spent a lot of time here as president and as an umpire. It was a nice feeling here.''
Former New Zealand fours champion Gloria Shine supports the move.
''It is much needed and will be very good,'' she said.
''It will bring more traffic through the stadium by having the bowls office there and will let more people realise what a great amenity it is.
''It makes more sense for bowls to be under the one roof.
''I'm a debenture holder of the stadium and am a great supporter of the work of Pat O'Dea and the foresight he had to build it.''
Shine is not sad at leaving the old women's bowls headquarters but was sad at losing the centre's two-green complex.
''But we can't let our hearts rule our heads. We have to move on,'' she said.
