Homchick discovered his life’s work at the young age of 17 when a family friend hired him for masonry help. “I loved the trade from my first day on the job,” he said. From there he began the apprenticeship process and later started his own business, Masonry Construction Company, now known as Michael Homchick Stoneworks.
Although Homchick’s business started off as a masonry company, he explained that it evolved from there. “We ended up doing more and more marble work,” he said. “Originally we would use another company to do fabrication, but we found it wasn’t getting done timely enough. We started doing it ourselves, and from there it has grown to be a decent size company.”