Islip Town is giving a nursing home provider up to $5.1 million in tax breaks to build East Islip’s first assisted living facility, which is expected to house about 100 seniors with medical conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, according to a town contract.

Benchmark Senior Living , the company behind the proposal, plans to build the two-story complex at 117 E. Main St. The four-acre property is currently home to a bowling alley, East Islip Lanes, which is still open but will be razed to make way for the new construction.

In an email to Newsday, Benchmark vice president Eric Gardner described the project as a 90-unit “assisted living and memory care community” that will house residents “who need assistance with activities of daily living, like help managing their medication or getting

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