The Buzz: This new bakery in Redding is more than a marriage of pie and bread

You can’t have pie without the bread.

That’s how Adrienne Tirri-Maupin describes the joint venture that brings her pie shop together with her husband’s sourdough bread business.

When Pie Meets Bread plans to open in the former Nor-Cal Brewing Solutions space in the Shasta Center on Churn Creek Road.

“It’s been a true blessing,” Tirri-Maupin said of their journey to this point. “With us together, it’s been really a miracle in my eyes like I’ve never seen. I believe it’s God’s plan. … There is a reason why we are here.”

Tirri-Maupin first met Nathan Maupin eight years ago at a food vendors event. Their businesses have been feeding off each other ever since, and they fell in love along the way. The two were married Jan. 1.

“As I continued to help him, I told him, ‘you gotta go for your dream. Redding needs this,’" she said. “We have gotten a lot of support through the community and through the farmers market.”

Nathan was just starting his bread bakery, Nathan’s Artisan Sourdough, when he met Adrienne. She and her daughter have operated For the Love of Pie for more than a decade.

She was an instant fan of his bread and encouraged him to sell at farmers markets across the North State. Pretty soon, they were setting up shop next to each other at outdoor markets, and the idea for a joint business followed.

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“I feel great about it,” he said. “Adrienne is amazing, and it was a true blessing to run into her at the farmers market. … My ultimate goal was to open a place because there’s a few problems running your business at home.”

One is getting fresh product to the customer.

With the new location, customers will be able to watch the bread- and pie-making process and purchase their favorite pie or loaf of sourdough hot out of the oven, he said.

“It’s kind of the ultimate goal as a baker to be able to show how it’s made,” Nathan said.

This will not be Adrienne’s first brick-and-mortar location.

For the Love of Pie last decade had locations in the Four Corners shopping center at Churn Creek Road and Hartnell Avenue and on Northpoint Drive. But they have long since closed.

 Adrienne’s daughter, Kirsten Crisosto, is the master pie baker.

Recently, Adrienne and Nathan had their bread oven installed at the new location in the Shasta Center.

“Our vision is to show off this world here in Redding, California, to help add new flavors and a new experience to everyone and anyone who stops on by,” they state on their website.

They are getting ready to host an event Feb. 12-14 to support the Shasta Center location. Look for more details to come on the website.

“I wouldn’t have reopened another pie shop. … But with him, it’s just like why this has all happened,” Adrienne said. “And then of course the customer, it’s really the community” making it possible.

Meanwhile, Adrienne's pies and Nathan's breads are available at Country Organics and Kent's Meats & Groceries in Redding. The pies also are for sale at R&R Meats in Redding, Adrienne said.

Stay tuned.

Advanced Automotive looking at Stillwater Business Park

“I really hope it works out, but I can’t stress enough, we are in the exploratory phase here,” Advanced Automotive owner Cody Morelock told me Friday.

Advanced Automotive will talk to the Redding City Council in closed session Tuesday about purchasing Lot 2 in Stillwater Business Park.

“We’re still kind of in the exploratory stage of getting the costs nailed down and making sure it would be an efficient move,” Morelock said.

Morelock’s father, Tim, opened Advanced Automotive in Redding on Westside Road in 1993. Cody bought the business in 2009.

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“I have been working at the shop since I was 12 and I am 36 right now,” Cody said.

He envisions an automotive repair shop with a regional training hub for mechanics attached to it.

Moreland has talked to a contractor and engineer about his plans.

“It’s kind of up in the air right now whether we will move forward,” he said. “It might just be a nonstarter from the start. We have to make sure the city is willing to have us.”

Advanced Automotive would join PACE Engineering, which broke ground in Stillwater Business Park last summer.

In addition, Electric Innovations and Maas Energy Works are in escrow to purchase a 15-acre lot in Stillwater.

Also in escrow is Panattoni Development, which wants to buy three lots, about 115 acres, in the business park.

Did Amazon consider Redding?

Lost in the recent news that Amazon will open a delivery station in Glenn County was this question: Did the eCommerce mammoth give Redding or Shasta County a look?

A large warehouse supporting more than 100 jobs seems the right fit for Stillwater Business Park.

Amazon will lease a 75,000-square-foot building near the Orland Airport and expects to open within the next 12 months. The facility will employ 100 to 150 full- and part-time workers. Wages will start at $15 an hour with health and retirement benefits, a company spokesman said.

“Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon’s order fulfillment process and this site will help speed up deliveries for customers in Glenn County and the broader region,” the company said in a news release.

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Both Redding City Manager Barry Tippin and Todd Jones, president of the Shasta Economic Development Corp., told me that Amazon did not contact Redding about their plans to open a distribution center, so no pitch was made to the online marketplace giant.

Jones believes Amazon needed an existing building that the company can revamp quick to start operations.

An Amazon spokesman in an email  to the Record Searchlight would only say, "Amazon is constantly exploring new locations and weighing a variety of factors when deciding where to develop sites to best serve customers."

There are not many large, empty buildings zoned for industrial use in Shasta County, Jones said.

“I think it’s a sign of the strength of our economy that our large industrial space is leased up right now,” Jones said.

But what about repurposing the old Shopko building on Lake Boulevard for eCommerce?

Jones thinks zoning would be an obstacle. The former Shopko building is zoned for retail.

Redding Planning Manager Lily Toy did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

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