Goodwill Excel Center

Transforming Our Community — Creating the New Education Center

Impact to My Community, Designed Around You.

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Contents Mission.......................................................................4 Purpose......................................................................7 Programs.................................................................11 Existing Site............................................................17 Creating a Vision. ................................................ 21

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MISSION Empowering individuals. Strengthening families. Inspiring communities. PURPOSE Through the work of Goodwill, people will have the opportunity to achieve their greatest potential. VISION Eliminating Poverty

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VALUES S.M.I.L.E. Serve. We support our communities and each other. Mentor. We motivate and empower each other. Include. We ensure everyone has a voice. Lead. We work together to drive change. Excel. We strive for excellence in all we do.

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Purpose

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Excel Center The Excel Center ® is a free, public school that provides adults the opportunity to earn a state recognized high school diploma and begin post-secondary education. In addition to a high school diploma, students earn industry-recognized certificates and/or college credits all at no cost. Goodwill Industries of the Valleys vision is to eliminate poverty by empowering individuals, strengthening families, and inspiring communities. The Excel Center ® can move the needle on poverty in the Roanoke Valley. Research conducted by Ball State University, Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame yielded the following findings which demonstrate the pathway to prosperity through The Excel Center ®.

The Excel Center ® in Northwest Roanoke will provide the resources necessary for students to achieve these outcomes. Those resources include flexible employment, onsite childcare, a small business development center, access to banking, and a health clinic. These resources and many other services are designed to support students and their families as individuals get their high school diploma and complete training for in-demand occupations.

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Discovery Services

Goodwill’s Discovery Services provides day support for individuals with intellectual, emotional, and physical disabilities. The programs encourage independence. They also enhance skill development through community integration and structured group activities. Individuals who have an interest in in exploring their communities and increasing their interpersonal skills, may participate in community activities. Through Discovery Services, over fifty individuals have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential while providing caregivers the opportunity to seek employment or have respite from caregiving. Virginia Western Community College Virginia Western Community College offers training onsite at Goodwill. Students can earn credentials, gain access to job opportunities in demand occupations paying family-sustaining wages, and participate in the many programs and services offered by Goodwill. The partnership between Virginia Western Community College and Goodwill spans decades and meets both business and student needs. Virginia Western programs are truly a pathway out of poverty for many of those who access Virginia Western’s career training programs.

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Grocery Store Goodwill is proud to be part of Northwest Roanoke’s community and we are committed to contributing to the strength and resilience of our community. We know physical health is crucial for families to thrive. Through inclusion of a grocery store in Northwest Roanoke, Goodwill will collaborate to provide access to fresh, healthy, affordable food options for Roanoke families. This grocery store will not only improve healthy food access, but also will provide family sustaining employment for Northwest residents. And more…. Goodwill will continue delivery of programs designed to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities. Those include: • GoodCare – a training program that has equipped hundreds of Virginians to achieve a career in health care • GoodStart – a program providing hundreds of individuals returning from incarceration the chance to learn new skills and enter jobs at a living wage. • New Vision – this service equips individuals who are blind or visually impaired with tools to increase self sufficiency. • Senior Community Service Employment Program – this program connects older workers to earn-and-learn opportunities and to employment to maintain self-sufficiency. • Services to Individuals with Disabilities – Goodwill provides a wide array of employment services to youth and adults with disabilities. • Services to Youth – Goodwill provides a youth center for middle and high schoolers designed to help them succeed and thrive. We also provide an array of career development, internship, and employment opportunities for youth.

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Program of Space Needs (All Numbers Shown are Approximate) GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS Space Allocation

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Excel Center

20,000 20,000

Grocery

Child Care

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Office

10,000 5,000 6,000 6,000 1,800 3,000 2,000 19,000 98,400

Training

Adult Day Support Programs

Virginia Western

Shared Loading Area

Flex Space

Banking, Minute Clinic, Kiosks Building Support and Circulation

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Total includes a 15,000 SF expansion (Approximate)

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Place • The Goodwill Campus is well positioned within the community to engage with surrounding neighborhoods. • The public face is currently Melrose Avenue with opportunities along 24th Street and Salem Turnpike for community engagement. • Three distinct bus lines are located within a ¼mile radius to the Goodwill Campus. • Bike lanes exist on surface streets.

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Creating a Vision

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Option 2 was the prefer comments.  Move A 

Workshop (May 2022) Option 1

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Day Support Center Virginia Western Community College

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Option 2 was the preferred concept with elements from Options 1 to be added for a revised Conceptual Option and additional comments.  Move Adult Day Support programs to the front of the facility. Drop off needs to be considered.  Leverage Melrose Avenue access and create an entry for the grocery to be seen from Melrose Avenue. For

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Adult Day Support programs to the front of the facility. Drop off needs to be considered. ge Melrose Avenue access and create an entry for the grocery to be seen from Melrose Avenue. For y limit entrances and exits, one on Melrose and one interior into center of facility. ty can be achieved best in Option 2. strative offices/areas do not need and are preferred not to be front facing. ork program would be vacating the Melrose Ave location and those services will be provided in Rocky “Galleria” – Central Hub Preferr d Opti n

Priority list of Functions: • Excel Center • Grocery • Discovery Services • Virginia Western Community College

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A Galleria to Connect All

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A Central Place of Service and Identity

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Excel Center Concept Plan

GALLERIA

STUDY LOUNGE RECEPTION

COMPUTER LAB

BANK

STUDY ROOMS

MINUTE CLINIC

STUDY LOUNGE

MAIN ENTRANCE

DISCUSSION

CLASSROOM

LECTURE

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LAB /MAKER SPACE

HYBRID

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Excel Center

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Welcoming and Building Our Community

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Community Grocery Concept Plan

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STORAGE

LOADING ZONE

GALLERIA

BANK

VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

MINUTE CLINIC

GROCERY

MAIN ENTRANCE

GROCERY ENTRY

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Example of a Grocery with an Identity

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Aerial View

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• Creating a more visible community identity • Seamlessly blend with the Melrose Library

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Inspire Empower Strive Community Aspire Serve

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Drive Support Excel Mentor Include Lead Achieve

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