RANKIN — People don't often leave California to realize their wine dreams in Pittsburgh, but that's the story for Cheryl Stasinowsky and her family.
It started when son Jordan, a Pittsburgh-based money manager, was searching for homes and discovered a dilapidated church for sale in Rankin.
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Cheryl and her husband Wally, who operated a construction business together in the Sacramento area, encouraged Jordan to consider the church, not as a home, but as a possible business venture.
The Stasinowskys, who were mulling over retirement plans, were unsure about their next steps.
Then came the question from her son: “When he said, ‘why don’t you come here and we can do this as a family?’ I don’t think he’d actually thought we’d say yes,” Stasinowsky said.
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But, indeed, they did say yes.
The couple, along with their daughter Amber Smith and son-in-law Daniel Smith, moved across the country to take on turning a 1903-era church into what's expected to open this spring as Mary's Vine, a new wine lounge.
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