Mina starsiak hawk will reopen recently closed 2 chicks district co. Store in a new city (exclusive)

Earlier this fall, Mina Starsiak Hawk revealed she had made the difficult decision to close her Indianapolis-based home goods store, Two Chicks District Co. But she's already got plans

for its next incarnation. “It's been super challenging,” she tells PEOPLE of running the shop, which became a tourist attraction drawing customers from around the globe, but not

necessarily a successful business. “You have these amazing people that are traveling to the store and say, ‘We wanted to come, we wanted to see it. We want to support you.’ And then they buy

a $2 keychain.” Starsiak Hawk estimates that at least 85 percent of the stores’ visitors weren’t from Indiana and were drawn to the store due to the popularity of her recently wrapped HGTV

show, _Good Bones_. It was "self-sustaining", she says of the shop, which opened in 2020, but it was “not in a great place.” In October, the same month _Good Bones_ ended its

eight-season run, Starsiak Hawk announced that Two Chicks District Co. would be shuttering at the end of 2023. The decision was “super emotional” for both her and husband Steve, with whom

she shares two kids, 5-year-old son Jack and 3-year-old daughter Charlie. “When I first came home and told him this is what I want to do, he said, ‘Absolutely not. You're not closing

the store. You love the store. It's your passion,’” she says. “I was like, ‘It's not my passion anymore. It's not bringing anyone joy. It's not doing any of the things

that I wanted it to do, so we're not doing it anymore.’” Mina soon found a "light at the end of the tunnel" when a man from nearby Noblesville, Indiana, contacted her about

collaborating on projects for his city, about 30 miles north of Indianapolis. “He has businesses there, and he was like, ‘What can we do to get you to Noblesville?'" she recalls.

“Is there a show to base out of here?”  “I mean, [_Good Bones_] was a giant commercial for Indianapolis, which was amazing,” says Mina, who started her home renovation business Two Chicks

and a Hammer with her mom, Karen E. Laine, there in 2007. “I guess his thought was having Two Chicks and a Hammer in the neighborhood is good for the businesses,” she adds.  Mina says it was

“very nice” to feel wanted in Noblesville. She began learning more about the area and after she attended a State of the City, she called her husband. “I was like, ‘We can move to

Noblesville now. I'm sold,’” she recalls. Mina now plans to reopen her store in Noblesville next year — and has already been looking at homes to renovate there.  “There's so many

cool Queen Anne Victorians,” she says. “There was one that I kind of had my eye on that's like a block off the square that's just a mess, which is perfect to me.” She’s even met

with the mayor and was impressed with his plans to develop the city, which she says are “super respectful of the historic downtown.” “They're just doing it really well and want that

growth and development, which Indianapolis says they want, but then the actual logistics behind it are impossible for my side of a business,” she says.  She adds, “Finding this place that

really wants us to come and is making it comfortable and welcoming and easy to come to feels kind of like a nice fresh start.”