D&B was retained by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation (NYSOPRHP) to provide design services for the replacement of the existing Sunken Meadow Parkway Toll Plaza in Long with a welcoming design to improve traffic flow, automate transactions and orient Park visitors. The new design solution will also serve as a “template design” for the park entry at Heckscher State Park that respects the nature of the Park while introducing a modern solution
to serve patrons as a welcoming point into the Park. The new toll booths will be brick and steel stud building type and the plaza building, where portions of the existing structure will remain, will be brick, steel stud and masonry
building type. The design process utilized Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a way to develop realistic images of the proposed finished building and overall project concept. The BIM model was also used to coordinate the structural, architectural, and MEP systems to allow for a fully coordinated deliverable. The
project is currently constructed and in use.