The grand opening of Goodwill’s new Chatsworth retail store is Friday from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. The 5,000-sq. ft. store is in the Chatsworth Shopping Center, 920 N. 3rd Ave., next to Aaron’s. It will carry an ever-changing variety of primarily donated items and some new merchandise.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m., hosted by the Chatsworth-Eton-Murray County Chamber of Commerce.
Grand opening festivities will include hourly prize drawings from 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
The first 100 customers on grand opening day will receive promotional giveaway items. US-101 radio will broadcast live on Friday from noon-2 p.m. and Que Bueno 101.9 FM radio will broadcast live on Friday from 4 6 p.m.
Adjacent to the new store will be an Attended Donation Center trailer. Tax-deductible donations of “gently used” items will be accepted at the donation site Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays from noon-5 p.m.
The Chatsworth store will employ approximately nine people and will be the 16th retail outlet in the 23-county Chattanooga Goodwill service area. The funds generated by the sale of items in the Chatsworth store and all Goodwill retail stores stay in the area to provide free job training, medical equipment, clothing vouchers and other programs and services for people with disabilities and other disadvantages.
The store will be open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and on Sunday from noon-6 p.m.
In 2014, Chattanooga Goodwill Industries served more than 11,000 people, including residents in Murray County, through its mission programs. Goodwill provides its programs and services at no cost throughout Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. More than 86 percent of Goodwill’s total revenues are channeled directly into client programs and services each year.
More information about local programs and services is available at
GoodwillChatt.org. Applications for many of Goodwill’s services are available online at their website including requests for free medical equipment through Goodwill’s HELPs program. Area residents will be able to pick up requested medical equipment at the Chatsworth store.