Grand Avenue Maintenance and Bus Depot Architecture and Landscape Design dD+P is providing architecture and landscape design services for the 500,000 sq. ft. new central maintenance facility and bus depot to be constructed on Grand Avenue in Maspeth, Queens. The two-story facility will have space for fueling, cleaning and indoor storage of 200 buses for the Brooklyn-Queens division of the New York City Transit. Within this facility, the storage, fueling, washing, painting, and mechanical operations will be under one roof, and can accommodate approximately 27 buses undergoing repairs or scheduled maintenance. The project also includes administrative offices, and employee amenities, including a roof-top employee parking lot which will ensure minimal impact on the neighborhood. The building will meet the need of expanding and upgrading the Department of Buses' facilities to be state-of-the-art from both environmental and technological standpoints. This design/build project will be the first "green" bus facility of its kind, built using all state-of-the-art systems, designs, and materials, and adhere to Environmental Management Systems 1SO14001 specifications. The Grand Avenue Bus Depot and Maintenance Facility is scheduled to be completed during the summer of 2006.