Goodwill alters proposal on F'ville project

Sun, 11/16/2008 - 6:25pm
By: Ben Nelms

The Goodwill proposal to construct a retail store and career training center and Ga. Highway 85 and Banks Road took an unexpected turn at the Fayetteville Planning & Zoning Commission work session earlier in the week. Goodwill representative David Poer told commissioners the organization wanted to withdraw the training center component.

Poer said Goodwill still wants to construct a 25,200 square-foot retail store but the company had determined that going ahead with the 8,000 square-foot career training center no longer made good financial sense.

Poer said Goodwill would go back to Fayette County Development Authority to discuss the issue.

The development authority and the non-profit Goodwill had been in discussions aimed at having the retail store/training center come under a bond project to finance the construction.

Poer requested, and commissioners agreed, that the proposal be tabled until January.

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Submitted by rjhatl on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 9:36am.

Have any of you people complaining about how a new Goodwill store will taint Fayetteville actually _been_ in a Goodwill store recently? Their new stores are nicely laid out, clean retail locations. Each store stocks what will sell in its location - meaning that a Fayetteville store will carry nicer goods than a store in College Park. Look at the Goodwill store in Avondale Estates, a city with a much higher per capita income and home value than Fayetteville.

Submitted by Spyglass on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 4:28pm.

That's how good your comparison is. You're comparing a community of around 1300 households (Avondale Estates) to one of around 5000 households. The numbers I saw for average home values were very close between the two.

If you like the Goodwill in Avondale Estates so much, move there, you'll be closer to it, and according to you, you'll be on track to make MUCH more income.

Submitted by rjhatl on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:21pm.

I never said anything about moving to AE leading to people making more money. Perhaps you should re-read my comment.

Submitted by rjhatl on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:45am.

I'm incorrect- it's not a Goodwill store in Avondale Estates, it's a Salvation Army store. The idea about thrift stores in nice areas still applies, tho. When Goodwill opens, those with crazy ideas about thrift stores being for "lower class people" might be surprised to see just how many of their neighbors shop there.

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Submitted by dawn69 on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:07am.

Low income? We may all be 'low income' by the end of the first quarter next year. My advise - save judgment for later.


Submitted by pomsmom on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 7:11pm.

I was hoping to see my property value go back up to what it was 2 or3 years ago. I've been here 30yrs. I guess I should have gotten out while the gettin was good. I probably won't live long enough to see prices go up again. Sometimes I think about just taking whatever I can get for my house and land and run like hell to the nearest camp ground.

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Submitted by Mike King on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 12:42pm.

Hey, if they need 25K square footage, why not hook them up with Capital City Development with that project by Planterra way? Certainly it would enhance the property values for those who kept saying that this development site was a good idea. In these poor economic times, old McMurrain could use the lease income from the additional 25K space that Harold and Council agreed to give them.
After all, this is not the anchor store that we all were worried about.

Far fetched, you say? This developer can lease to who he pleases should the stoplight be approved. Just think, residents of Peachtree City could drive their golfcarts over the recently completed bridge that has spanned the RR tracks for the past five years(maybe).

Ordinances prevent this you say? Try entering litigation to thwart such a nonprofit entity designed to assist the underpriviledged.

Oh, for want of the good old days!


Submitted by harris on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:11am.

this belongs in Riverdale, not Fayetteville!

Submitted by tikigod on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 11:13am.

Just what we need, more reasons for low income people to visit Fayetteville! This can't be anything but a good idea!

Seriously, why would Fayetteville willing bring the class level down in a already struggling town. Everything they should do at this point, is to help make F-town a nicer place. This certainly DOESN'T do that.

Submitted by intheknow on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 12:18pm.

Maybe time for a name change

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