Columbia’s Fifth and Walnut parking garage

Columbia’s city council approves adding window panels at downtown parking garage

March 22, 2022 By Brian Hauswirth

You’ll see side window panels this summer at Columbia’s tallest parking garage, which has been the site of numerous suicides since 2011. Columbia’s city council has approved a $504,000 project to install side window panels at the Fifth and Walnut garage downtown. Jonathan White, who led the citizen’s petition for more suicide prevention barriers at the …

Columbia’s City Council to vote on window panels for downtown parking garage that’s seen several suicides

March 21, 2022 By Brian Hauswirth

Efforts to prevent self-harm and suicides at Columbia’s tallest parking garage will be addressed by the city council on Monday night. The city has finished a $489,000 project to install fencing on the top level of the Fifth and Walnut garage downtown, which opened in 2011. The city council will vote tonight on a bill …

Suicide prevention fundraiser is planned for Monday evening in Columbia

October 18, 2021 By Brian Hauswirth

A suicide prevention fundraiser will be held in Columbia Monday night to honor a 23-year-old woman who died in September at the Fifth and Walnut parking garage. The event begins at 7 at Rose Music Hall, and is called HavenFest. It will honor Haven Thomason. Event organizer Josie Martin, a 2015 Hickman graduate, has lost …