Velocity Negotiates New Leases for Goodwill of Central Arizona

PHOENIX-Goodwill of Central Arizona has signed three new leases in the Phoenix metro area.

Andy Kroot with Velocity Retail Group, LLC handled the deal. He has represented Goodwill for 10 years and been an integral part of their store growth.

“We are pleased to be able to help Goodwill expand their presence in the greater Phoenix area,” Kroot said. “We are continuing to seek additional full retail stores as well as donation centers.”

Goodwill of Central Arizona is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit agencies in Arizona. Their commitment is to put people to work throughout Arizona by providing job training and employment services to a wide range of clients. These new locations will enable Goodwill to service many more customers and donors and will create jobs for the community.

The new stores include:

• SEC of McDowell Rd and Pebble Creek Parkway. This 30,256 square foot store will be a full retail store with career center.

• NEC of Yuma Rd and Watson Rd in Buckeye, AZ. This brand new 25,000 square

foot full retail store will be developed for Goodwill by DTD Devco 12, LLC dba

Desert Troon Companies

• A new 1,331 square foot donation center located in the Maricopa Fiesta Center at

John Wayne Parkway and SR 238 will soon be open to the area residents as a

convenient way to make donations.

 With 65 years of serving central Arizona's communities, Goodwill of Central Arizona is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit agencies in Arizona. Goodwill's commitment is to Put People to Work throughout Arizona by providing job training and employment services to those with vocational disadvantages and disabilities that can include mental and emotional barriers, physical disabilities, welfare dependency, illiteracy and age. In 2012, they served more than 42,000 youth and adults on their quest toward self-sufficiency and secured more than 15,563 employment opportunities.

Headquartered in Phoenix, Velocity Retail Group provides a full range of commercial real-estate services including leasing and selling of shopping centers, tenant representation, consulting, investment consulting, development to retail tenants, and redevelopment to owners of retail real estate throughout the Southwest.