In an effort to expand its services to the citizens of the CSRA as the community grows, Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia and the CSRA has purchased a parcel of land in the economically vibrant Gateway Center near Grovetown.

Purchase of the two-acre parcel, located near the Gateway Center entrance on Partnership Drive, closed Thursday, Jan. 8. Goodwill is not disclosing the terms of the sale, but will have 60 days of due diligence to finalize plans for the site.

The site is intended as a future home for a Job Connection center, providing job training, education and career development services to residents of western Columbia County and Grovetown, one of the fastest-growing areas in the CSRA. In addition, the facility to be built at the Gateway Center will include a convenient donation drive-through supporting a Goodwill retail training store.

The additions will bring to five the number of Job Connections in the CSRA, joining other centers in Augusta and Aiken; increasing the number of full- and part-time donation sites to 11; and expanding the number of Goodwill retail training stores westward to five.

“Goodwill is very pleased to be part of the exciting economic development of the Grovetown area and to support business, industry and Fort Gordon with forthcoming new human development programs,” said James K. Stiff, President of Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia and the CSRA.

Construction of the facility is expected to begin this spring, with a projected opening in late 2015.

For information, email Barry Paschal, Goodwill Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, at [email protected], or call (706) 726-1986.