The bookstore is set up similar to Goodwill’s bookstore on Thomasville Road. They are stocked with 30,000 – 40,000 books ranging from all types of fiction and non-fiction including text books, rare books and cookbooks – especially popular in the Thomasville Road store. New inventory will be added daily.

The bookstore is housed with Goodwill’s new electronic recycling center and store which opened in December and their car lot which has been moved from  2537 West Tennessee Street.

Proceeds from all Goodwill stores provide income to train people with disabilities for jobs.

The bookstore is open seven days a week.

Goodwill now has similar “villages” in Tallahassee (2), Marianna, and Panama City (2), Florida, as well as Bainbridge and Thomasville (2), Georgia.  Each of these complexes is barrier-free allowing residents in wheelchairs and with other disabilities to live independently.

In 1997, we acquired Oakridge Townhouses in Tallahassee.  These Townhouses provide 60 two bedroom apartments for people age 62 and above.

In 2009 we opened 15 apartments in Cairo, Georgia.  Our application to build 15 apartments in Perry, (Taylor County) Florida was approved.  Occupancy is targeted for 2010.

All of Goodwill’s apartments are rented to people with low or very low incomes.  The Village rents are subsidized by the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and the Townhouses rents are subsidized by the U. S. Department of Agriculture –

Rural Development.