Patchogue, NY According to TRITEC Real Estate Company, Inc, Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar has signed a lease for 7,378 s/f at 1 West Main St. in New Village. The 291-unit, mixed-use development is named New Village at Patchogue. Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar is a full-service casual restaurant and bar with a sports and entertainment focus that combines exceptional food and beverages, with unique concepts, and proprietary operational strategies. Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar was founded in July 2008, and currently operates ten corporate locations in central Pennsylvania and has 95 franchise locations either open or in development. Arooga’s founders are taking the “unique sports and entertainment restaurant & bar” concept national and are offering franchising opportunities to qualified multi-unit candidates. Arooga’s was awarded America’s Next Top Restaurant Franchise in 2013 a contest co-sponsored by Sysco Foodservice and the Franchise Edge. Nik Sgagias of NAI CIR and Dennis McCoy of NAI Long Island represented Arooga’s. Brian Boker of Schuckman Realty represented New Village and TRITEC. Arooga’s is expected to take occupancy in the spring. Joe Alagna, owner at JAG LLC, is the franchisee principal for Arooga’s which plans to open 10 locations though out Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. Alagna said the search for their first location began about eight months ago. “We saw the articles about Patchogue,” he said. “A buddy of mine, a commercial fisherman, rents an apartment here in New Village and told me about Patchogue. It was important to us that the first one we opened was in an environment like this.” Tags: