The Goodwill proposal to construct a retail store and career training center and Ga. Highway 85 and Banks Road took an unexpected turn at the Fayetteville Planning & Zoning Commission work session earlier in the week. Goodwill representative David Poer told commissioners the organization wanted to withdraw the training center component.

Poer said Goodwill still wants to construct a 25,200 square-foot retail store but the company had determined that going ahead with the 8,000 square-foot career training center no longer made good financial sense.

Poer said Goodwill would go back to Fayette County Development Authority to discuss the issue.

The development authority and the non-profit Goodwill had been in discussions aimed at having the retail store/training center come under a bond project to finance the construction.

Poer requested, and commissioners agreed, that the proposal be tabled until January.