Over five months ago a proposal was submitted to the City of Portland, Oregon Bureau of Development Services, which presented the idea of building an athletic facility on campus to increase athletic program capacity. The new facility would relieve overcrowding of Lincoln athletic facilities and provide more space for athletic programs such as volleyball, basketball, and wrestling.

The project was apart of a PPS initiative to help Lincoln and other PPS schools, resolve both academic and athletic capacity issues. The layout would of been a 10,000 square-foot building, single-story, twenty feet tall, placed at the east end of Lincoln. The facility would replace the land that the portables currently occupy, eliminating four classrooms. However, the new facility could of provided teams that usually can’t use the current gym hours, a place to practice and even play games. There was also potential for two additional classrooms to be added on to the south side of the building, both being 750 square-feet.

However, despite the design layouts, the extra athletic facility space, and the potential of new classrooms, the proposal was turned down.