Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop plans later this month to move its shop north of Spokane to a larger space at 10406 N. Division, near the Whitworth University campus. 

That shop previously was located in the Wandermere West shopping center, at 12501 N. Division, about 1.5 miles north of the new site.

The bakery, which creates and delivers a variety of desserts including cakes, cupcakes, and cookies, is owned by Sally Winfrey. Winfrey’s daughter, Jessica, who now serves as her mother’s assistant and office manager, says the company decided to move out of the Wandermere retail center in part because of that site’s proximity to a Starbucks coffee shop.

“Starbucks has a noncompete agreement (with the landlord) that prevented us from serving coffee,” she says. “Moving a bit farther south to a larger location gives us the option of adding an espresso section and a deli.”

Winfrey says Sweet Frostings will be the first tenant in its new, 2,500-square-foot space, which is situated next door to Umpqua Bank and Didier’s Yogurt & More at the northeast corner of Division Street and Hawthorne Road.

Winfrey says Camden Hayes, of Spokane-based Hayes Brother’s Construction, is the contractor for the project, which is expected to be completed in time for the business’s planned opening on Saturday, Oct. 27.

“We bake almost everything at our downtown shop, so the new Whitworth space will focus on sandwiches and deli items,” she says. “We may eventually move some production to the new space, but our main focus is opening.”

In addition to its original location in the Hutton Building, at 15 S. Washington downtown, Sweet Frostings has two bakery kiosks, one in the Northtown Mall, at 4750 N.  Division, and another in the Spokane Valley Mall, at 14700 E. Indiana.

Winfrey says the business has a total of about 30 employees between its locations, three of whom previously worked at the Wandermere shop. 

She says the business plans to hire about seven more employees to operate the new Whitworth shop.