The side of a parking garage in Palm Beach, Florida could become a climbing wall. That’s if business partners Sean Scott, Jerris Gay and Tyler Henneman get their way. The team created The Alley Climbing and hope to convince the city to allow them to build a 50 foot tall, 100 feet wide climbing wall on the outside of a parking garage.
“It’s another outside element that I feel like the city needs,” Scott told My Palm Beach Post. “We have sun, it’s warm, we under-utilize that element of our environment. As a business generator, a community spot, it’ll be a great synergistic business with the coffee shop and the alley.”
The partners’ company, Palm Beach Climbing, LLC, will pay the city rent starting at $14,000 a year for use of the side of the garage. He estimated the removable panel wall will cost $300,000 to fabricate and install.
They hope to be open in spring of 2017.
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