Goodwill Industries of Arkansas is currently renovating the building at 703 E. Appleby Rd. for a new retail store.
Staff photo
One of the larger vacant buildings along College Avenue will soon have a new tenant.
Goodwill Industries of Arkansas plans to open their second Fayetteville location at 703 E. Appleby Rd. on Thursday, Sept. 13. The company also operates a store on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, as well as a donation center on Steamboat Drive.
The new store will also include a donation and career services center inside the 14,600-square-foot building formerly occupied by an ALDI grocery store. It will be Goodwill’s sixth location in the Northwest Arkansas area, and will become the 31st location in the state.
“Goodwill continues to expand in Northwest Arkansas because people are utilizing and benefiting from our career services, attended donation centers and retail stores,” said Brian Itzkowitz, Goodwill president.
A ribbon cutting is planned for at 8:45 a.m. Sept. 13 After that, the store will be open from from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
dang, I was hoping for Trader Joe’s
Excellent! I hate all of the empty buildings along college and am glad a company like Goodwill will be going in to use the space.
Thank you for sharing this exciting news with your Fayetteville Flyer readers! We are thrilled to be opening this new location to help people in NWA find deals, donate and get jobs!
Rogers gets a new Cabela, we get a new Goodwill. Where is this town headed?
Oh, waaaah. A while back, Fayetteville took a Sam’s Club away from Springdale. I wonder which one will generate more sales tax revenue.
The Cabela’s store in Rogers will be hot through Christmas or so, then people will either go to the nearest Bass Pro Shop (better entertainment) or other stores (lower prices). Eventually the Cabela’s space will be leased to a survivalist/militia charter school. Meanwhile, instead of becoming tax-exempt square footage, Sam’s Club will continue to generate tax revenue.
Imagine the tax revenue from Goodwill.
Hey David, thanks for realizing what an economic boon the green Sam’s prototype is for Fayetteville. When Springdale turned down their request for a liquor permit, I called them the immediately, and told them to come to Fayetteville ,and we would make it happen. The rest is money in the bank.
What’d be so bad about a survivalist/militia charter school? Seems just the thing to prepare for the zombie apocalypse.
Not a thing, except it would not generate sales tax revenue. I mentioned the possibility because Shiloh Christian School has opened a campus at Pinnacle Hills.
So you expected Cabela’s to lease an old Aldi’s in the middle of town?
For the time being, we are headed to another venue for cheap, pre-owned clothes and furnishings. Rogers is headed for another place to buy overpriced crap from China, and in about a year, yet another huge vacant building along I-540. Cabela’s should do about as well as the Sportsman’s Outlet (which was almost the exact same store without the recognizable name).
Besides, we’re getting our Academy sports this year, which has tons of hunting and fishing gear. And nobody is going to beat Southtown for friendly and personal service, along with a decent selection of merchandise and a willingness to order in something they don’t have on hand.
If we don’t push to redevelop College Ave and repair what years of neglect and sprawl have done to out main street, this is our future.
Is this the type of situation where they would have to do nice landscaping? Or is that only if they build/renovate something? I like and appreciate a goodwill as much as the next guy, but it’s always nice for buildings and landscaping to see improvements.
Anyways, I definitely share your concern for College Ave. I would love to have sidewalks on both sides of the street, more trees, and, of course, pull back on the sprawl and get some more businesses in some of these empty buildings, and hopefully knock down an abandoned gas station or two. Gross. That’s pretty much my number 1 concern for Fayetteville. The real test is we need to get to the point where it doesn’t look weird for someone to be walking down College.
“our”
Cabela’s will do just fine. They are more hunting and fishing. They are cheaper the Pack-Rat, but I will still go to SouthTown for my bow needs. David you make me laugh all the time.
Thank you. As for Cabela’s, I suspect that their prospects aren’t as bright as they imagined when they first proposed to build in Rogers. They could not have foreseen that our knuckle-dragging chuckleheads in Congress would sacrifice the needs and interests of their constituents to the Teabagger “principles” of some guy who is not one of their constituents, and in so doing refuse to get federal funding for projects such as improving the atrophied interstate highway at Cabela’s front door. They could not have known that their hopes for better access to their store would be pinned on a sales tax increase that will not pass.
Of course, there is some hope that they will get a little traffic from men who would be emasculated by art, and so will go to Cabela’s while the little woman and the more runty of their offspring go to Crystal Bridges. I expect the store will have a special returns department just for bass boats and ATVs bought on such adventures with nothing but a credit card and the wide-eyed admiration of the first-born male child.
Unfortunately, unlike the Internet, it’s not visitor volume that’s important to Cabela’s– it’s purchases that the better half won’t insist be returned RIGHT NOW.
Cabela:Goodwill- Come on now something needs to change around here. Are we seriously going to brag about backin parking and parking decks? I don’t know if this is the City Administration ( don’t talk about personal finance) or Chamber of Comerce ( don’t talk about past records) but it is getting down right goofy around here. Is there a vision for this city or do we just wing it and keep it funky? Is there a debate about issues or do we talk about election signs and the appropriate name for the mayor’s right hand man. Can we have a “check your ego at the door ” healthy debate about the long term plans for this city?
RE “Come on now something needs to change around here.”
Something needs to change everywhere.
RE “Are we seriously going to brag about backin parking and parking decks?”
Who has bragged about them? Of course the merchants on Block Street are happy with the improvements there– even the back-in parking– and I guess you could consider the Block Street Block Party a form of bragging.
RE “Is there a vision for this city…?”
Aren’t you usually complaining because the government cannot or should not do things? It took a lot of people a long time to mess up Fayetteville when times were good. It’s going to take longer to fix things; times are tight and “vision” costs money.
RE “Can we have a “check your ego at the door ” healthy debate about the long term plans for this city?”
Not as long as people come here to whine.
Get use to it ’cause I’m gonna “whine” ’til your ears bleed. The town has been run into the ditch.
I guess you’ll show me. (I wasn’t referring specifically to you, by the way.)
Sounds good, I like the one on MLK and this will be an easier option for many people.
I shop at Goodwill all the time. I’m excited that I’ll have two options. Wooo!