A Goodwill store is scheduled to open May 20 at 2070 S. Power Road in Gilbert. The store and donation center will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Goodwill has also signed a lease for a new Mesa store at the northwest corner of Southern Avenue and Country Club Drive, in the building next to Bookmans formerly occupied by Gold’s Gym.

The San Tan Freeway is still a few years from completing its loop through Gilbert, but national retailers aren’t waiting for the roads to start ringing up sales.

Wal-Mart is seeking 200 people to work at a new store opening in the fall in Tempe, the company said Monday.

Macy's department store will open its first Gilbert location in March.

Qwest Communications International will open a new type of retail store in Gilbert Friday at the Crossroads Towne Center, 3765 S. Gilbert Road.

Dunkin’ Donuts continues to roll out revamped stores in the East Valley. The latest is on the southeast corner of Lindsey and Warner roads in Gilbert.

Sylvia Babbitt tenderly runs her fingers along the curves of a four-poster dark mesquite bed. "If I build something," she says, "I want to make sure it lasts forever."

About 100 residents of the Islands subdivision packed the Gilbert Town Council meeting Tuesday to protest a Goodwill store coming to their neighborhood.

May 11, 2005

January 21, 2005

February 10, 2005

Stores of all sorts are opening in Gilbert so fast they have to do it in twos. Like SuperTarget, which staged a dual opening earlier this month, a new-to-the-East Valley supermarket chain is wrapping up March with a double debut.

August 30, 2004

Mike Valentine doesn’t see a need for Wal-Mart to open a store in the Gilbert Town Square shopping center. He points to the Target store two miles east, the planned SuperTarget four miles south and a planned Wal-Mart Supercenter five miles away.

A hardwood floor retail showroom is planning to join Gilbert’s first elementary school and Mormon church buildings at the southern edge of the downtown district.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman is looking to sell at least one of his two cellular phone retail stores.

Gilbert police are looking for a 23-year-old man in connection with a jewelry heist last month in which a store employee was blindfolded and bound with duct tape.

Gilbert police are looking for a 23-year-old man in connection with a jewelry heist last month in which a store employee was blindfolded and bound with duct tape.

Gelato Freeze is joining three Gilbert moms to raise money for the fight against breast cancer on Wednesday, in an event that will feature firefighters dressed in pink as the "Guardians of the Ribbon" firefighters - who will perform at 4 p.m. and bring a big ribbon sculpture for survivors to sign.

Two Mesa brothers face aggravated robbery charges after they were arrested Saturday when police said they tried to steal items from a 99 Cent Store.

A 22-year-old woman was robbed shortly after noon Monday in the parking lot of a Gilbert Ross Dress for Less, police said.

A burglarized Gilbert T-Mobile store had a number of items and cash stolen between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, according to police.

Gilbert will join a handful of other Valley municipalities including Phoenix, Scottsdale and Chandler when its first Macy’s department store officially opens on Friday.