At first glance, you wouldn't know. It is tucked in the outskirts of a downtown that city officials have been battling to rejuvenate for decades.
You go into a respectable stamped concrete to park, go through a green gate to the courtyard, smell a whiff of nature from the tropical plants in the garden, then search for Suite 106. The doors of Suite 106 are 1950's-like. Unassuming. Then you open the door and there you are - instantly swept away to a place of peace, quiet and relaxation… with nature. Is this Fresno, you might say. It is like you are taken to a rainforest to meditate and ponder upon life.
Dr. Lopezes (Dr. Frank and Cynthia Lopez) bought the property when no one would take a glimpse at it. They renovated the whole place foot by foot to bring it up to what it is now. Dr. Frank occupied one office suite and Dr. Cynthia occupied two office suites. Dr. Cynthia had yearned for so long to re-create the feeling that she had while growing up in a small town in the Philippines. It is called Mariveles, an archipelago that is surrounded on one side with a mini rainforest and a vast ocean on the other side. Growing up in this town was the most pure part of her early life. She wanted to share this sense of feeling with her patients.
With Dr. Frank's full support, she collaborated with an interior designer, an artist and a sculptor to transform an inhabitable place to something that even the mayor would be so proud of.
