In addition, he said, the church spends $3,000 a month for the rent on its current building, at 493 Maple Avenue in Westbury; for payments on the $200,000 mortgage it obtained to buy the new building and for insurance on that building.
The French bank Crédit Agricole has also extended the lease on its current building.
Mr. Palmieri said the arrangement would eventually result in more tax revenue because while WFSB is expected to pay about $325,000 in taxes the first year, down from $417,500 on its current building, the taxes will increase to $775,000 by the seventh year.
"We will oppose any request" from Target to restart construction on the current building, said lawyer Robert P. Silverstein, who represents the La Mirada Avenue Neighborhood Assn. of Hollywood, which has been fighting the project for eight years.
On June 30 , 2003 the current building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the result of an Alumni Association initiative.
Instead, the society will concentrate on renovating its current building.
In 2004, Beth Shalom bought its current building, on South Kedzie Avenue, on Chicago's South Side, from a rapidly declining congregation of Lithuanian Jews.
The museum began planning for a new home in 1997, when an engineering survey determined that its current building on Bancroft Way did not meet present-day seismic standards and could not be upgraded to meet those standards without eliminating the open space required for the museum's exhibition program.
The land at the centre of the centre of the dispute, on Hall Street, was bought by Dudley Muslim Association 10 years ago, with the aim of replacing its current building on Castle Hill, which it said it had outgrown.
Other significant churches in the town include St Bryce Kirk built between 1877 and 1881 by James Matthews at the corner of St Brycedale Avenue and Kirk Wynd; Abbotshall Parish Church on Abbotshall Road, the current building completed in 1788 and Linktown Church built in 1830-1 by George Hay on Bethlefield Place.
