New York, NY – The search for a new site for the Lincoln Square Synagogue began five years ago and has finally culminated in a deal that allows the synagogue to relocate and provides a majority of the construction financing. American Continental Properties Inc. has agreed to a land swap on the Upper West Side to make way for the development.
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Moshe Sukenik, EVP of Newmark Knight Frank, said that the five-year search has ended in a way that “no one envisioned” years ago when the process began. The Lincoln Square Synagogue occupies two adjacent sites that had unused air rights and contained one older building that was in disrepair at 200 Amsterdam Ave. Through the years a number of plans were suggested, including selling the sites to a residential developer who would build the synagogue into the base of the project, and teaming up with a nonprofit that was looking to build.
The project is thought to be the largest synagogue to be built in at least 50 years. [globesst]
way to go Moish
I hope that they see fit to install a better mechiza than they have in the present building.