May 18, 2022- In coordination with Historic Preservation Week, the Lincoln Square Theater held a public open house from 4-5 p.m. to give community members a glimpse inside the ongoing renovations . Following the open house, there was a VIP Regional Decatur Chamber of Commerce Business After-Hours Event from 5-7 p.m. The Lincoln Square Theater also teamed up with the Macon County Law Enforcement Training Center to host a 7 p.m. showing of the film ‘Bad Boys’ for 56 cadets who will be graduating soon.
The Lincoln Square Theater was built in 1916. Following its’ 100th year anniversary, the building was shut down. Due to the disrepair, the city planned on demolishing the building. Fortunately, in 2020, a group of community members banded together to form Friends of the Lincoln Square Theater, a nonprofit with a mission of restore the business to its’ former state before it suffered damage.
While there are still ongoing renovations, and the theater is still in need of major improvement, LaVelle Hunt, Board President of Friends of the Lincoln Square Theater, expects renovation to be complete, come this fall.
“We would like to think that by this fall we will be pretty much done with the whole project,” Hunt said. “Everything is done now except for the auditorium. We are doing a complete flooring system where we are changing that, and then we have got the ceiling and the walls inside the auditorium. Other than that, the whole theater is done.”
Below is the full interview with LaVelle Hunt, Board President of Friends of the Lincoln Square Theater.
