The Dirt: Gluten-free bakery opens

Sun., Sept. 7, 2014

Jeanine and Eric Smith have opened Cole’s Fine Foods, a gluten-free bakery and commercial kitchen.

They’ve taken 1,500 square feet at 521 E. Holland Ave., in north Spokane.

This is the couple’s first food business. Jeanine Smith had previously worked in health care management.

She adopted a gluten-free diet after she was diagnosed with celiac disease several years ago.

The store offers baked goods, granola, pizza (take and bake or by the slice), nine types of flour, cake mixes, crackers and other options.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.

Also in the works is a wholesale distribution service to provide items to the South Hill Huckleberry’s Natural Market, she said.

Two new tenants have moved into the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in Spokane Valley.

Appliance Recycling Outlets, LLC has leased approximately 4,800 square feet.

Mission Foods has leased approximately 12,600 square feet. It distributes tortillas, chips and other related items.

Margie Granat is opening Community Yoga of Spokane, at 45 E. Weile Ave. in north Spokane. Granat is also one of the center’s instructors.

She expects to launch classes on Sept. 15, with a six-day-per-week schedule.

The 1,000-square-foot center is taking space last used by Fifth Element Production Co.

Helping arrange the lease were Chris Bell and Drew Ulrick, both of NAI Black.

DaVita Dialysis Center, a national medical service provider, has purchased the former Colville Liquor and Wine store at 198 Pondera Road.

The dialysis firm, headquartered in Colorado, paid $670,000 to the Hudesman Colville Estate.

The building measures about 6,000 square feet.

Marshall Clark, of Clark Pacific Real Estate, arranged the sale.