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The Patchogue Village Board has just paved the way for a hotel with rooftop dining to be built in the village.
The board on Tuesday night approved a crucial zoning change at 138 West Avenue — the site of the proposed hotel — from an industrial district to a hotel district.
The move will now see the Tempo by Hilton project proceed to the Planning Board, so there are more steps in the process before shovels go in the ground.
The developers, West Avenue Partners, LLC, have been looking to build at the former Bowl Long Island property, just north of the National Park Service’s Watch Hill ferry terminal.
The bowling alley closed in August 2020 and the property owners, the Eggert family, later decided to sell the waterfront property in late 2021.
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Patchogue Village Mayor Paul Pontieri, one of the hotel project’s strongest advocates, sees the development as key to establishing Patchogue as a premier destination on Long Island’s South Shore.
“How do we become something different than what we are? How do we become a destination?” Pontieri previously said.
The Suffolk County Planning Commission has reviewed the project’s plans and last week recommended the village move forward with the zone change.
The Village Board had initially denied a change of zone on July 8. From there, the developers went back to the drawing board and modified their initial plans, reducing the building from six stories to five and trimming the number of proposed hotel rooms from 116 to to 96.
The developers also altered plans for the proposed rooftop restaurant, and are now pitching 13 apartments, down from the original 16.
The hotel developers also plan to collaborate with the neighboring ferry terminal to create a public park in the space between the properties.
Still, the project has divided the community, with some residents viewing it as an economic boost and others expressing concerns about potential congestion in the downtown area.
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Scroll down for more previously supplied renderings from the developer’s architect, JM2 Architecture.

