Muna Danish a reporter from Oakland North recently aired a radio segment on our Rec Center! 

Video by Michael Moon, Prime Image US

Save these dates for Lincoln Summer Nights 2018!  ​Friends of Lincoln Square Park has partnered with the Chinatown Improvement Initiative to bring you another year of First-Friday fun. 

• June 1st
• July 6th
• August 3rd
• September 7th
• October 5th 

Summer Nights is an awesome family-family friendly event you won't want to miss. Whether you're a park regular or  just  looking for a new way to celebrate the first Friday of the month, we guarantee you'll find something fun, exciting, entertaining or delicious at Lincoln Park! 

Where else can you play table tennis with someone twice or  half your age? ​

Welcome to our new website.  This is the place to learn more about Friends of Lincoln Square Park and our bold vision for the future of the recreation center. Have a look around, let us know what you think and get involved today!  

Lincoln Square has been an active part of Oakland Chinatown for over 100 years and memories abound such as playing on the Wa Sung Junkboat, Teen Nights, Kiddie Corner, talent shows and Summer Nights. Lincoln Square park has always served as a gathering spot for community members of all ages. As folks grow up and out of the neighborhood, the park has increasingly served as a regional recreation center not just for Oaklanders, but also the greater Bay Area.

For the past year, a core group of volunteers have been exploring the concept of expanding the current recreational center as the needs of the community continue to outgrow the aging facility. In addition to meeting monthly, we've been talking with community leaders and elected officials, and have hosted public meetings to gather feedback.  We've even hosted a few small fundraising events, and have raised some funds from generous individuals so we could begin with the initial design phase and have started to develop conceptual drawings.

We need additional voices and hands to help and so we are inviting you to get involved!

Please consider any or all of the following: 

• Help plan an upcoming Lincoln School Alumni Reunion
• Join the Steering Committee, which includes a leadership position plus monthly meetings
• Be an extra pair of hands by helping with tasks like mailings and managing the database​

What other talents can you share?  Please let us know!

We are also looking for pictures of the park and school, current or from the past.  If you have any to share,  email them to us at info@FriendsofLincolnSquarePark.org or mail copies to P.O Box 13267 Oakland, CA 94661.  We'll build an photo archive and share your stories on our website.

Contact us or email us at info@friendsoflincolnsquarepark.org and let us know how you can help move this project forward. 

Thank you for your dedication and continued support!

Sincerely, 
Friends of Lincoln Square Park

Did you know this project was included in the FY 2017-19 Adopted Capital Improvement Program? There's wasn't funding in the budget, but our recreation center was identified as a priority with respect to Social and Geographic equity. The report states, "The Lincoln Square Recreation Center Feasibility Study, Peralta Haciend Historical Park Improvements, San Antonio Synthetic Field Replacement and Arroyo Viejo New Synthetic Field are located in an areas of high ethnic diversity, low income, and in mostly limited English speaking neighborhoods. The Lincoln Recreation Center is aged, crowded, in need of upgrades, and has been previously identified for an expansion project that has gone through numerous robust community engagement processes. The center serves over 2000 daily users and the surrounding community is steadily increasing with additional housing putting more pressure on an already undersized facility." 

Measure KK - Proposed Alternate Project for Infrastructure Bond
$400,000 for a Lincoln Square Recreation Center feasibility study was listed as one of seven alternate projects for Measure KK. According to the plan, "The Lincoln Square Recreation Center Feasibility Study will provide the information needed to begin design on a new center that will replace all, or the majority of, the existing facility and allow for increased services to the community in a new building that will serve the community well into the future.

FY 2015-17 Project Prioritization List (as of Feb 2016) 
$7,000,000 for the Lincoln Square Park Recreation Center Expansion/Renovation project was included as a District 2 park project.