Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has announced that community members recently celebrated the opening of the City of Lawton Public Safety Center in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Designed to consolidate municipal services, the facility
houses the city’s police headquarters, central fire station, the city jail, and
municipal courts. The design, inspired by the Wichita Mountains rolling
into plains, extends the city’s municipal and cultural presence from downtown
to the Northeast Gateway and addresses the significant operational, security,
and space deficiencies the city was experiencing in its previous undersized and
disparate locations.
“The ribbon-cutting ceremony was an exciting milestone
for this project,” says Dewberry Principal and Business Unit Manager Bruce
Henley, AIA. “We are proud to have been an integral part of designing a
facility that consolidates resources and improves the necessary facilities for
this community and its first responders.”
The new facility extends the existing cultural and civic
presence downtown and has been designed with public access, parking, and bike
trails.
Dewberry provided architecture as well as
structural and civil engineering and low voltage design services, including
security electronics, telecommunications, and audio-visual systems.
