Thatcher Medical Center

This building is becoming so poorly managed it’s ridiculous. I’m only a patient here, not a physician. But I go to see a physician here 2−3/week on my lunch break, and would’ve been for the foreseeable future until now. The parking situation is horrible. The first two rows are too close together, then people park over the lines and they allow oversized trucks to park in there is well. It often takes very carefully executed maneuvering to get out without hitting a car. The girls who work at my doctor’s office said they’ve had their cars hit by people who took off numerous times. I don’t doubt it.
Almost half of the 3^rd row is reserved for employees. They also have several spaces blocked off on the first row. Then the last few weeks parking got even worse, which I was told is likely because there is a Quest office there now. Just what they needed, parking that is EVEN worse. There is always someone manning the pay booth on the way out. The guy is really nice. His purpose is to stand there, take your ticket, tell you you owe .75 cents for every 15 minutes you were parked in the world’s worst parking lot, then politely tell you to have a nice guy. You leave there happy that you and your car made it out alive. That’s right, I have also almost been hit driving and walking through there almost every single time.
THEN, to make it even worse, they throw a food truck in their parking lot on certain Wednesdays each month. So, about ²⁄₃ of the first row is now blocked off for the food truck. Why in the world would management think this is a good idea??? This is absurd and a total inconvenience to patients! So, you drive around for even longer hoping to find a spot, until you eventually give up and take the worst spot in there because it is the last one left (since nobody else wanted it), and you’re now running late to your appointment. You walk into your appointment knowing you’re definitely going to have a door ding or smashed in bumper when you arrive back to your car. And this time it’s even worse because they decided to to block off 8 random spaces at the end of a row for no apparent reason.
You walk up to a super old building that has charm and is always decorated for the season. Cute touch. But maybe you should spend more time working on the parking issues instead of decorating.
I then waited along with a few other cars to get out of the single exit yesterday. I waited for 6 minutes and there was a line behind me still. It has taken this long one other time, but generally it’s only a minute or two. But I’m angry this time because there is a new guy at the ticket box who appears to be texting or playing on his phone in between giving out tickets and taking your money for the misery their lot causes you. I FINALLY get up there and he’s telling me I’m paying for twice as much because I went over the 15 minutes. Uh yah, I went over it sitting in your parking lot while you were playing on your phone. No joke, he had his back to me as I finally got to the front and he’s doing something on his phone while resting his arms on top of the ticket box. He slowly turns around a few seconds later. You see the line behind me and know I have been sitting in it for several minutes, but you don’t have enough urgency or consideration for people to stay off your phone?! Unbelievable. I tell him I shouldn’t pay for the time I tried to get out of his parking lot due to the line. He asks the regular guy who was on the other side of the booth and tells me I’m going to go ahead and have to pay. I wanted to tell him the line that was caused by their parking issues, the food truck they added, him playing on his phone, etc, but I’m already late to work now because of them, so I just ask him name. I tell Michael to have a nice day and I leave furious.
I’m complaining to my doctor’s office about this and will be leaving his practice all together soon because I can’t deal with losing money at work because I’m late due to them. Losing money because I’m paying twice as much to park there because of their poor planning and employees who play on their phones. And they haven’t seen anger yet until they see me after someone hits my car in their parking lot and I’m having to pay my insurance deductible to get it fixed. Management seriously needs to get it together and come up with a better plan. And it’s unfortunate, because I really like my doctor.

This building looks like it belongs in New Orleans.
BUILDING:
Space is leased out to numerous physicians, pharmacies and labs and that’s why they call it Thatcher Medical Center. It is not a hospital.
I tried to find some history online about the building with no success, so I have no idea when it was built. I have a sneaky suspicion it’s only around fifty or sixty years old.
PARKING:
You can park on the streets or in their lot in back for a charge. They do take credit cards so that’s good.
MISC.
It is close to lots of restaurants, so you can grab lunch after your appointment.