“The District’s historic Lincoln Theatre will be an anchor for emerging and celebrated performing artists who attract increasing numbers of new and old patrons to the U Street corridor and the District of Columbia. The Lincoln Theatre will be a place where refreshing, creative artists speak, sing, dance, act and tell stories that reach across and through the District’s diverse cultural landscape.”

This vision for the Lincoln Theatre is guiding a number of actions by the District to reposition the Lincoln in the regional cultural market. With this solicitation, the District is offering an opportunity for qualified mixed use developers to assist in repositioning real estate associated with the Lincoln to complement and benefit the ongoing operation of the Lincoln.

The District owns two V Street parcels (“the Lincoln lots”) that are immediately behind the District’s Lincoln Theatre at 1215 U Street, NW. These two parcels are separated by a north-south alley which runs to the east of the Lincoln Theatre. The parcels total 11,788 square feet. The alley area between the two parcels equals 2,175 square feet.

The two parcels are surrounded by hundreds of millions of dollars in new, recent and planned development projects and are within steps of the U Street / African American Civil War Memorial / Cardozo Metro Station entrance at 13th Street, NW.