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
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 …
Efforts to prevent suicides at Columbia’s tallest parking garage continue
Columbia officials say fencing has been completed on the top level of a downtown parking garage that has seen several suicides since it opened in 2011. The city council approved the $489,000 project for the Fifth and Walnut garage in October 2020, but city officials say COVID escalated the cost of materials, especially steel components. …