Goodwill to Open Fayetteville Store
by July 11, 2011 12:00 am 85 views
Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Inc. will open its first Fayetteville store in late July. The 20,000-SF facility at 3105 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. will include a donation center and a Career Services Center.
The nonprofit organization depends on sales at its thrift stores to fund job-service programs for people with disabilities and other special needs.
Susan Crossley, director of marketing and communications for the Little Rock-based organization, said they expect to hire about 30 people to staff the new store, including sales staff, store managers and a Career Services Center manager who will oversee all of the Career Services Centers in the Northwest Arkansas division.
Goodwill’s donation center on Steamboat Drive in Fayetteville will remain open, Crossley said.
“We’re definitely trying to expand our footprint in Northwest Arkansas, to meet the need there,” Crossley said. “At the end of 2009, we really didn’t have a presence up there at all.”
Goodwill opened a 25,000-SF store in Springdale in December 2009 and a 12,000-SF store in Bentonville in February 2010. It also has a donation center in Bella Vista.