Lincoln Public Schools is moving to sell two parcels of land to the City of Lincoln for a pair of new public parks.
Lincoln is in the early stages of developing two new public parks, and LPS plans to sell land to the city for the sites, according to a separate account from journalstar.com.
The district plans to sell land to the city for two parks.
A Third Property Also Under Discussion
Alongside the two pending sales, the Lincoln Public Schools board has also discussed purchasing property near Sheridan Elementary, a separate tract covering 1.4 acres. That property would continue to be used as green space for students even as the district considers acquiring it, and Standish said the property currently has some drop-off and pick-up activity on site.
Board member Barb Baier thanked LPS and the city for cooperating to build parks in areas frequently visited by students, pointing to the value of adding green space in locations already woven into daily school life.
Part of a Broader Pattern of School-to-City Land Deals
These two sales are not the first time LPS-owned land has been eyed for park development. In a separate case from March 2025, Lincoln Parks and Recreation said LPS had provided a quitclaim deed to transfer 0.80 acres at the southwest corner of Folkways Boulevard and North 18th Street to the city for a neighborhood park, though that transfer still required federal approval, according to lincolnnorthhills.org. At that time, Parks and Recreation also said available funding was insufficient to build the park and it could not provide a development timeline.
A different report from journalstar.com also described a potential future city park in far south Lincoln tied to a proposed sale of LPS-owned land intended to someday house an elementary school, illustrating how these school-to-city land transfers have surfaced in multiple corners of the growing city.
For now, the two proposed parks remain in the early stages of development.
