Goodwill opens new retail store and donation center in northwest Baltimore
Goodwill will open a 12,000-square-foot store and donation center at Reisterstown Road Plaza, adding jobs, donations access and more foot traffic in Northwest Baltimore.
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake will open a 12,000-square-foot retail store and donation center at Reisterstown Road Plaza, giving Northwest Baltimore another place to buy donated goods and drop off household items as the shopping center continues to fill vacant space. The ribbon cutting is set for 10 a.m. July 23 at 6516 Reisterstown Road, in the former Petco space.
Revenue from donated goods and purchases helps fund free workforce-training and education services for Baltimore-area residents who face barriers to employment, including building-trades training, pharmacy technician training and adult high school diplomas through the Baltimore Excel Center. Goodwill's retail workforce has grown by 20 percent.
Lisa Rusyniak, Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake’s president and CEO, will attend the opening, along with Jenise Martin, a 2024 Baltimore Excel Center graduate who has been hired as lead production associate.
Reisterstown Road Plaza opened in 1962 and has been the focus of renewed redevelopment under new management after a Baltimore-area firm acquired the shopping center for nearly $50 million in late 2023.
The Plaza store will not replace the smaller Goodwill location at Reisterstown and Fallstaff roads, which will remain open. It will join a broader Baltimore-area network that already includes Goodwill retail sites in Waverly, Fells Point, Pikesville, Eastpoint, Towson, Perry Hall, Kenwood, Catonsville, Glen Burnie, Padonia, Columbia, Ellicott City and Owings Mills.
Goodwill of the Chesapeake operates about 30 retail locations and eight workforce development sites, employs more than 600 people and runs on a budget of nearly $60 million. The Baltimore Excel Center, opened in 2023 as Maryland’s first tuition-free adult high school for adults 21 and older, offers free childcare, transportation assistance, coaching and flexible scheduling. Baltimore Magazine put the school at 398 students enrolled, 1,125 credits earned and 100 graduates. Goodwill’s 2025 annual impact report put the totals at 1,905,417 shoppers, 718,686 donors, 5,608 unique individuals served, 916 job placements and 33 million pounds of donated textiles, housewares and other goods.
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