Officials in Milwaukee County, Wis., plan to let bids in the next two weeks for the repair of a municipal parking structure at O’Donnell Park, where a 27,000-lb precast-concrete facade panel fell off the building and killed a 15-year-old boy and injured two other people last June. The county’s 2011 budget has earmarked $6.5 million for structural work on the garage.
About $3.5 million to $4 million of the repair cost will go to permanently removing all 70 of the ramp’s precast facade panels, then giving an aesthetically pleasing look to the parapet wall that has been covered up by the panels ever since the structure was built in the 1990s.