CWP & Holub Development Complete Development of New Goodwill Location
New Goodwill store readies to open in Port Orange
Article by Bob Koslow of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, originally
Charles Wayne Properties and Holub Development Welcome Goodwill to the Dunlawton Yorktown Retail Development
published July 14, 2015.
PORT ORANGE — Goodwill Industries of Central Florida is close to opening its new retail store and donation-processing facility.
The 23,000-square-foot center at 1752 Dunlawton Ave. is expected to have a soft opening near the weekend of July 25 with a grand opening to be held in early August, said Mary Tindall, a spokeswoman for the Orlando-based nonprofit organization.
The new center’s retail area is about 13,000 square feet. That’s much larger than the current store’s 7,000 square feet. The new center is about three miles from the current center at 3997 S. Nova Road, which will close when the new facility opens with about 50 employees, 15 more than the current site.
The new center also features a covered drop-off drive-through lane.
The new center is part of the nonprofit’s effort to upgrade the experience of shoppers and donors, who fund the organization’s mission of providing free job-assistance services, said Bill Oakley, president of Goodwill Industries of Central Florida.
The new Goodwill joins a new Culver’s and Pollo Tropical restaurants along with a Wawa and small strip center under construction at the southwest corner of Dunlawton Avenue and Yorktowne Boulevard. It’s also next to BJ’s Wholesale Club in the Altamira Shopping Village.
“From a development standpoint, it adds an all-price discount retailer to the mix,” said Charles Lichtigman, CEO of Daytona Beach-based Charles Wayne Properties, who, along with Paul Holub Jr., owner of Ormond Beach-based Holub Development, own the land and building leased to Goodwill. “Goodwill is locating in more retail-oriented areas and not the older centers they used to be in. It attracts better donations and shoppers.”