Dallas County’s Parkland Hospital is staging a garage sale this weekend to sell surplus equipment and furnishings from the old hospital after moving into a new one nine months ago.
The sale is underway until 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at 2420 Butler Street in a Parkland Hospital warehouse.
From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, a special sale of commercial kitchen equipment will be held in the old hospital kitchen with access through the old emergency room entrance off Southwestern Medical Avenue.
More than 6,000 items are up for sale including TVs, chairs, tables, bookcases, ice machines, refrigerators, storage equipment and 500 iPhones.
Sale prices are marked on all items but unlike some garage sales, there is no haggling over price. Customers must pay with cash and be prepared to carry large items.
Customer John Ortega paid $500 each for two refrigerator display cases that he said would have cost thousands elsewhere.
“The deal of a life-time,” he said. “Don Corleone would have bought them.”
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Customer Myra Hernandez paid $265 for a truck load of tables and chairs to host her family parties.
“This is a blessing. It’s a lot cheaper, a lot cheaper,” she said.
Parkland officials said the county’s hospital and clinics could no longer make use of the items.
“We’ve had a lot of looks by all the department heads to see what we’re doing as far as what could be refurbished, reused,” said Jerry Nickerson, Parkland Vice-President of Engineering and Program Control.
Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell said Parkland has been watching money carefully as it faces budget cuts this year.
“They squeezed it good,” Cantrell said. “They’re looking at a somewhat small deficit over at Parkland, so they’re squeezing every dime they can get out of everything. And this money they get off the sale will go back into the budget.”
