Update: It seems that now a site has been decided upon (not the polemic site mentioned in my previous message), and the construction of the temple will begin soon.
http://news.bahai.org/story.cfm?storyid=369
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)