Producing Quality Foods
The place is so orderly and clean that you hesitate to take items from the carefully stacked pyramids of produce. But the quality looks too good and the prices so right that you can’t afford not to.
This is the first impression of Eisenhauer Family Produce, which opened last week at 1520 Northwest Blvd. (next to By the Lake Travel) in Coeur d’Alene. Owners Joe and Patti Eisenhauer plan to do all they can to have those first impressions become lasting impressions.
“We’re trying to make volume sales to be able to offer low prices,” Joe said, pointing out four pounds of Granny Smith apples for $1 and five pounds of Texas grapefruit for $1.
“We want to give our customers nothing but the best.”
With islands of products, primarily from Pupo’s Produce of Spokane, in a 3,300-square-foot room, Eisenhauer’s has plenty of room to grow - which it plans to do.
“We want to offer the local products produced by local people,” said Joe, who started in the produce business as a teenager in Burlington, Wash. He continued as a produce buyer in Arizona. He and Patti, who is from the San Juan Islands, came to North Idaho in July.
The store also offers milk, soft drinks and Kruegermann gourmet pickle products, sold only in specialty stores. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays and until 7 p.m. Saturdays.
The Eisenhauers are helped by their three teenagers, similar to how Joe started in the business, and they hope to market to area restaurants and bed and breakfasts. Phone 676-9650.
Feel-good, look-good exercise in a friendly atmosphere is the objective of Bodies in Training, which opened in January at 1600 E. Seltice Way (Hillstead Plaza) in Post Falls.
With more than 7,000 square feet to house plenty of exercise equipment and room to train, the fitness center offers kick-boxing and spinning (cardio-vascular exercise) classes, personal training, tanning, massage, martial arts/self defense, chiropractic services, a day care and a “pro shop” with activewear and fitness accessories.
Activities and classes at Bodies in Training are available through membership or payment-by-use through a punchcard.
Owner Rob Howard, who has 10 employees, is a Post Falls native who was educated at North Idaho College and the University of Idaho before graduating from Seattle Pacific University in exercise physiology. With 10 years’ experience in personal training, he returned to North Idaho in 1996 after working in corporate wellness in Colorado.
Hours are 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Phone 457-0740.
Although he hasn’t released a definite plan for the property known as the Wilma lot in downtown Coeur d’Alene, real estate broker Leo Notar plans to purchase the 5,000-square-foot parcel at Sherman Avenue at Second Street in downtown Coeur d’Alene on April 1.
The city has no height restrictions for the property. Parking can be provided on the site or by paying fees for impact use on city parking spaces. Now with Century 21 John Beutler & Associates Realty, Notar came to North Idaho 13 years ago from Orange County, Calif.
Seller of the property, which for many years was the site of the former Wilma Theatre, is Coeur d’Alene Mines, which also is selling the property to the north. That includes a 5,500-square-foot parking lot north of the alley and the vacant 5,950-square-foot Neff Mall.
Architects West, Notar’s partner in the purchase, plans to remodel and occupy the building at Second Street and Lakeside Avenue in July.
Falcon Investments and Insurance has relocated and affiliated with Haddock and Associates insurance agency at 1311 W. Northwood Center Court in Coeur d’Alene.
Owned by Todd Banducci, Falcon provides financial services and investment products as well as financial planning and insurance products.
Rhea Krause was promoted to Falcon operations manager. New employees include insurance agent Bob Evans, financial services agent Gary Dean and administrative assistant Jacqueline Krause. An open house is March 23. Phone 765-9592.