Plans for what would be the Village of Patchogue’s first hotel in years will get a hearing by the village’s planning board later this month.

The public will get a chance to express their opinion about the Tempo by Hilton hotel proposed for 138 West Avenue at the hearing at Village Hall on Tuesday, June 10 at 6 p.m.

West Avenue Partners LLC, which is based in Merrick, N.Y., wants to build a four-story hotel with a rooftop restaurant. The developers need site plan approval from the planning board in order for the project to move forward.

Plans for the project, which the developers want to build on the 2.19-acre site of a vacant bowling alley, were first announced in January 2024.

In January of this year, the Patchogue Village Board approved a change of zone for the site from E industrial to the village’s floating hotel zone.

That came after the village board initially denied the zoning change in July 2024, but said the developers could reapply.

Mayor Paul Pontieri has worked for years to bring a hotel to the village and has been a proponent of the project.

Bringing a hotel to Patchogue was “one of the first promises I made when I took office 25 years ago,” Pontieri said. “It’s something we’re ready for.”

Hotel guests would be able to walk to downtown restaurants, take the ferry to Watch Hill or ride the Long Island Rail Road into New York, Pontieri said.

The project, however, has received opposition from some neighborhood residents, who say it would affect the surrounding neighborhood of single-family homes and cause problems with parking, traffic, stormwater runoff, and noise from the proposed rooftop restaurant.

The developers originally proposed a five-story building with a rooftop restaurant, 118 rooms and 16 apartments.

They have since scaled the project back to four stories with a rooftop restaurant, 96 rooms and 13 apartments.

The developers also added public greenspace to the project and tweaked the look of the building to make it look more nautical to reflect Patchogue’s nautical history and its proximity to the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Pontieri said he expects the hotel will mean additional revenue for downtown businesses.

Pontieri and other supporters of the hotel say there is a need for a hotel south of Sunrise Highway. The nearest hotels are on Route 112 in Medford by the Long Island Expressway.

“There’s nothing south of Sunrise Highway,” Pontieri said.