[5] As a real estate investor, Coogan purchased the former Bovi's Tavern property, a former jazz club in East Providence.
[5] The area surrounding the former Bovi's, known as Six Corners, is currently under development with Coogan securing commercial, retail, and residential tenants.
[5] He rebranded Horton's Seafood, a family-run business[6] into a restaurant serving Mexican fare called The Burrito Bowl.
Circa 2001 while serving in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, Coogan became acquainted with a fourteen-year-old working as a legislative page, Nicholas Alahverdian.
[1] In 2020, Alahverian would fake his death from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and flee to Scotland to avoid federal investigation into numerous charges including sexual assault and fraud.