Goodwill would like to invite Dearborn residents Monday February 13th, 8am to discuss their plan of opening a Goodwill Store in Dearborn.
Takes place @ Biggby Coffee 22445 Michigan Ave Dearborn, MI 48124
If you have questions, concerns or would just like to add your support Donated Goods Director, Jeff Ukrainec & PR Director, Mark Lane will be on hand to chat.
maggie sisco
3:40 pm on Saturday, February 11, 2012
Takes place @ Biggby Coffee 22445 Michigan Ave Dearborn, MI 48124
Anina Bachrach
11:03 am on Sunday, February 12, 2012
People should go and hear what an upscale Goodwill is like. Hope City officials come along too to calm their unfounded fears.
Next Gen
3:59 pm on Sunday, February 12, 2012
I understand the community needs affordable retailing options. I formerly worked in the automotive sector before I decided to return to school, leaving my full-time job for a part-time position and shouldering the burden both of a mortgage and tuition on my reduced salary. I must make difficult choices on what I can afford to buy. On a short budget, I know there are plenty of discount retailers nearby. The Dollar Store anchors the opposite end of the proposed discount store. Walking one block to the west, the Westborn Mall houses a Marshall's, Bulk Food Warehouse, Dollar Tree, Sweet Peas Baby Boutique, Dots Fashions, Avenue, and Payless. Does the community really need another discount retailer?
Further, I find it a distraction to label the discount retailer "upscale." By adding the adjective upscale, is somehow the discount retailer converted to an upscale discount retailer really any different from adding another discount retailer to this community? In addition, I do not think that government can enforce "upscaleness" on a retailer; we must take the retailer at their word that they will maintain an "upscale" factor, a chance I am not willing to take.