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84 l*mber opened a new yard in Jefferson City, Tn. (Randy Scalf, store mgr.); is nearing completion on a store in Bardstown, Ky., with others on the way in Shelbyville and Leitchfield, Ky.

McCoy\ Building Supply held a grand opening for its newly remodeled store in Brownwood, Tx.; Mike Jones, store mgr.

Wheeler's Building Materials has opened a 38,0@-sq. ft. store on three acres in Bessemer (Birmingham), Al.; Bobby Wolfe, mgr....

Carolina Holdings has acquired McGinnes Lumber Supply, Plant City, Fl.; Willard McGinnes Jr. stays on as gen. mgr. ...

Home Depot opens stores this month in Cornelius, N.C.; Midlothian, Va., and Richardson, Tx.; bought at auction Hechinger's McAllen, Tx., location, and had its site plan for a new store in Peachtree City, Ga., again tabled by the planning commission ... t2 current and former workers at Depot's Southfield, Mi., store have filed a racial discrimination suit seeking $1.12 billion ...

lowe's Cos. opened new superstores in West Nashville, Tn.; Cumming, Ga. (Alan Harkins, store mgr.); Lakeland, Fl. (store mgr. John Williams, co-mgr. Dwight Marsh), and at the redesigned Beacon Mall in Alexandria, Va. (Robert Rawlings, store mgr.)

Lowe's plans a spring opening in Fayetteville, Ga., and applied to build a 135,000-sq. ft. store with 48,000-sq. ft. garden center in Knightdale, N.C.

Truserv's Top Lumber Member for t999 include Causeway Lumber, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.; Forest Products Supply, Sarasota, Fl.: Mobile Lumbet Mobile, Al.;

Cape Cod Lumber, Fort Lauderdale; Fairfax ltmber, Springfield, Va., and Sminy's Lumberteria, Alexandria, Va. TruServ is consolidating its $10 million Yellow Pages ad account with agency TMP Worldwide

Ace Hardware Corp.'s new marketing program trains associates to be "professional space consultants" for products such as shelves and bins...

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Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. has sold Dura-Wood Treating Co., Alexandria, La., to RailWorks Corp....

TexTrim Mouldings, San Marcos, Tx., has closed after l5 years

Ce ntral Lumber Te chnolo gies (CUf), Oklahoma City, Ok., a subsidiary of Tom L. Davis Lumber Co., Oklahoma City, has not been closed as erroneously reported here last month; Cl,T, a specialties firm, is three years old this month; the parent company has been in business since 1958

Marks Forest Products, Birmingham, Al., has opened an Atlanta, Ga., branch office managed by George Small, with Tony Gambino, Kathy Hedgepeth and Clay Hoard, all ex-GeorgiaPacific

Norbord Industries Inc. is building a $120 million OSB plant on 320 acres in HuguleS Al.; construction of the 500 million sq. ft. capacity mill should be completed within l6 months...

Cameron Ashley Building Products' senior management, an investment fund and a Citigroup subsidiary plan to buy all outstanding shares of the Dallas, Tx.based distributor...

Weyerhaeuser has completed its purchase of TJ International

Doorlite, Inc. (Westem Reserve Products), Gallatin, Tn., has sold its assets to ODL Inc.

Gilman Pape4, St. Marys, Ga., has been acquired by Mexicobased Durango Paper; the Howard Gilman Foundation will still run Gilman Building Products Co....

Louisiana-Pacific has sold its sealant division Associated Chemicals, Inc,, Portland, Or., and Orangeburg, S.C., to ACI management and an equity firm

Hughes Supply /nc., Orlando, Fl., is helping to fund bestroute. com LLC, a business-to-business online stocking distributorship for the electrical industry

Hitachi Power Tools, Norcross, Ga., is now offering its complete power tool line through Amazon. com...

United Forest Products, Spartanburg, S.C., is now stocking Willamette Industries'full line of engineered wood products ...

U.S. Concrele, Houston, Tx., agreed to acquire ready-mixed concrete/lime slurry producer Beall Industries, Dallas, Tx.

New Web site: World Buyers' Guide for Hardwares & Building M are rials, www.bui ldingmaterialsguide.com

Ve lux-Gree nwood /nc., Greenwood, S.C., has earned ISO 9002 certification ...

Anniversaries: A.F. Schwerd Mfg. Co.,Piusburg, Pa., 140th...

Engineered wood products use in U.S. and Canadian residential construction rose nearly 80Vo per start from 1995 to 1998, reports APA...

Housing starts in Dec. (latest figs.) climbed 7Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.712 million ... single family starts rose 8Vo Io 1.402 million, multifamily was at a rate of 280,000 with 5+ units and 30,000 for 2-4 units an estimated 1.663 million units were started in 1999,3Vo above 1998's 1,616,900.