Goodwill Bookstore & Donation Center has opened on W. Stadium, a new chapter in Goodwill of Greater Detroit’s 105-year-old mission to serve people who have various barriers to employment.

Smaller than Goodwill of Greater Detroit’s other eight nonprofit stores spread across five counties (including one at 3782 Carpenter since 2016), it’s also the first to focus on selling gently used books while accepting donations of all sorts, according to Jeff Ukrainec, vice president of donated goods operations.

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“It is a book town,” he says, with “permanent residents as well as the students, so you definitely have a nice mix. … It’s a heavily traveled area with great visibility and great exposure. So I think it’s going to [be a] win-win for the book sales as well as the donations. People are going to see us and want to donate their merchandise, and that’ll help us in the long run.”

Books are rotated to have “fresh merchandise every single week,” he says. Hardcovers are $3 to $5; paperbacks are $1 to $3.

The bright and fresh space, leased from neighboring PROCAM Photo & Video Gear, offers comfortable seating and a counter with stools and power outlets along the windowed front wall. “Scanners” looking to flip books for profit are welcome, says manager Carey Hughes. He proudly points out their mascot, a donated plaster frog spray-painted blue, which his grandson named Good Willie.

Goodwill Bookstore & Donation Center, 2015 W. Stadium. (734) 369–3872. Mon.–Sat. 10:30 a.m.–7 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. goodwilldetroit.org

 

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