The landlord of the 1910 Medical Clinic’s Ellenton office has filed a lawsuit to evict the clinic because of what he says is an invalid rental lease.

Landlord Eddie Parsley says clinic owner Warren K. Gold unfairly amended the lease by handwriting-in two new terms to which Parsley did not agree.

But the clinic, located in the Plaza at Plantation Bay, will not be picking up overnight and moving as it did from its Bradenton location.

The clinic’s St. Petersburg attorney is arguing Parsley’s claim is “prejudicial” and that he is seeking a technical loophole to close the clinic because of complaints from plaza tenants and neighbors.

“Quite frankly, it’s a legitimate health care facility, it provides needed services to patients, and to the extent that Mr. Parsley has a problem with that, that’s something he’s going to need to deal with,” said attorney Daniel Anderson.

The 1910 Medical Clinic is located at 905 25th Drive E., at the front of the Plantation Bay subdivision off U.S. 301.

The clinic initially opened at 1910 Manatee Ave. W. in Bradenton but left when protestors deemed it a “pill mill.”

The clinic, the owner says, does not dispense drugs and requires patients to present an MRI before the doctor prescribes painkillers like oxycodone.

The office, however, accepts only cash, does not take insurance and is frequented by out-of-state patients — all attributes that trouble law enforcement and government officials.

The city of Bradenton and Manatee and Sarasota counties have since enacted rules that ban new pain clinics in their boundaries.

Parsley’s attorney, Bradley Wood of St. Petersburg, wrote that the lease is void because Parsley did not agree to the terms added by Gold.

One added term stated that if the clinic was pushed out by any city or county problems with parking, the clinic would not be responsible for the rest of the lease, court records show.

The clinic’s motion to dismiss says Parsley’s eviction is in “bad faith and for an improper purpose” because he had been notified of the controversy over the clinic.

Parsley said Wednesday that Gold never informed him of the “nature of his business” and that he does not have a signed, legal lease with him.

Parsley said he discussed parking issues with Gold and that he told him the plaza had sufficient parking.

“I knew nothing of the issues of his business,” he said. “I have received complaints from everybody, and they are in there without permission.”

In a May 19 letter, the landlord wrote to Gold that the clinic has a “severe negative impact” on other plaza businesses. He wrote he would not sign the changed lease and requested the clinic vacate within three days.

The clinic moved in on May 17, has not left and is still accepting clients.

Gold testified in an affidavit that Parsley said he “would have no problem with the impact that might result” from the clinic.

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