Shared-use kitchen reopens in Ponderay
Sweet Heat Co.’s Derek Blumenschein, pictured right, shares samples of his locally produced pepper jelly at the Pend Oreille Specialty Foods Incubator reopening event Saturday, Jan. 18.
Photo by ERIC WELCH
PONDERAY — After a hiatus, the shared-use commercial kitchen at the Bonner Mall reopened Saturday.
Now known as the Pend Oreille Specialty Foods Incubator, the 1,500-square-foot space is designed to offer local entrepreneurs in the food industry the infrastructure needed to grow their businesses.
POSFI’s origin can be traced to the Sandpoint Business Incubator, which included a commercial kitchen available for business owners to lease time in until the center closed in 2014. Equipment from the kitchen went into storage until a coalition of municipalities and nonprofits secured the necessary funding to create Kitchen Ponderay — a shared-use professional cooking space in the Bonner Mall.
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