NEWS BRIEFS

Collins Do-it Center, Ada, Ok., has been purchased by Mead Lumber Co., Columbus, Ne., and renamed Mead Lumber Do-it Center; temporary mgr. Bob Lawson will become contractor sales mgr. when Scoff Miller takes over as mgr.; Mead has 16 stores in Kansas and Nebraska ...

Fort Myers Lurnber & Supply Co., Fort Myers, Fl., has been acquired by Cape Lumber Co., Cape Coral, Fl.

Owchita Lumber, Bernice, La., has been purchased by Ken and Dennis Reeves and renamed Louisiana Lumber & Hardware

Handy Andy Home Warehouse is holding a grand opening this month for its Vidalia, Ga., store after tripling floor space, and added location #5 in Eastman, Ga., Marvin Scarborough, mgr. ...

Port City Lumber /nc., Catoosa, Ok., has closed ...

Home Depot opened stores last month in Houston, Tx., Atlanta, Ga., and Kannapolis, N.C.; will anchor the proposed University Commons shopping center in Athens, Ga.; is scouting for sites in Corpus Christi, Tx., and Anderson, S.C.; has proposed a 103,000-sq. ft. unit for Murfreesboro, Tn. (across from a Lowe's superstore), and is working to acquire a site near Cortana Mall for its second Baton Rouge, La., unit...

Home Depot has been promised a decision on its proposed Clarendon, Va., store will finally be made at a June 24 cowrty board merting, and may fight the Sunrise (Miami), Fl., city cornmission's rejection of its plans for a 162,338-sq. ft. store since the 17acre property is zoned for commercial use; two busloads of Sunrise residents turned out to opposeDepot...

Wickes Lumber has acquired Owsley Lumber Co., Pensacola, Fl., from Tom Jenkins and renamed it Wickes-Owsley Lumber,Randy Stewarg mgr.

City Lumber Co., Big Lake, Tx., has closed ...

Loweb Cos. opened a 125,00G sq. ft. unit in Enterprise, Al.; closed a contractor yard in Gainesville, Ga.; closed 65,00G sq. ft. and 30,000-sq. ft. High Point, N.C., stores upon opening a 150,000-sq. ft. superstorc, Harold King, mgr.; opened a 150,0fiI.sq. ft. superstore in Franklin Square Shopping Center, Gastonia N.C., replacing a 65,00Gsq. ft. unit; will close its Baker, La., store upon opening two Baton Rouge superstores early next year...

I-owe's has begun construction on a 125,360-sq. ft. store in San Angelo, Tx.; has added 10,000 sq. ft. of display space at its Murfteesboro, Tn., store; is investing $500,000 to add 10,000 to 15,000 sq. ft. to its Dale City, Va, store's garden oenter; is scouting for a site in Corpus Christi, Tx.; is considering Jacksonville, Fl., for at least three locations (Regency/East Arlington, Southside/l\{andarin, and West Jacksonville/Orange Park), and is being sued by a man who slipped on a wet floor at its Corbin, Ky., store ...

Calcasieu ltntber, Austin, Tx., opened its 3rd yard in Round Rock, Tx. ...

Home Quarters Warehouse is searching for a site in Pensacola FI....

Scotty's held a grand opening for its newly remodeled, 85,000sq. ft. New Smyrna Beach, Fl., location; the Key Largo, Fl., store was recently burglarized by a man who broke through a skylight; police responded to an alarm and arrested the suspect on the roof

84 Lumber Co. opened its newest store June 7 in Madisonville, Ky., and held a five-day grand opening celebration for a new unit in Hopkinsville, Ky., Don Williams, storc mgr.; Tommy Sallengs, co-qgr.

West BuiAing Matcrials, Ionesboro, Ga, held a gnnd reopcning, unveiling expanded lawn/gardcn, electrical and plumbing deets.

Smith-Phillips Lumbcr Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., is corylercly remodeling, adding a ContractorPlanlVork C-rrlbrto the $owroom and constnrcting a 15,3(X!' sq. ft. door, window md millwort assembly warehouse, Richard Key, div. mgr.

National Homc Ccnters, Inc., Springdale, Ar., plans to open is l0th store later this year in Rogers, Ar.

Builders Sqturc has opened a 109,0fiI'sq. ft Buildcrs SqnaE tr in Midlan4 T!r., Jeff l(rall, mgr., and closed its Alexandria, Va., store...

Carolina Buildcrs Corp., Raleigh, N.C., is moving to alrger facility in Greensboro, N.C.; tte company has also aquircd mrtufacturer/distributor Thomas R. Hop s on- B mb r Irc., lfiarietra" Cn (see story p.23) ...

Hechingerb is considering building a new storc on a l7-rcre site in Lcesburg, Va, and selling its existing Leesburg facility to Taryet...

Conmercial htmbcr has relo' cated to a new Tbls4 Ok, frcility now under renovation

Forest Building Materials, Oklahoma City, Ok., donated more than $10,fi)O in cash and materials to a Christmas-in-April program to repair and remodel hornes for the elderly

Paty BuiWing Ccntcr, Morristown, Tn., held a grmd rcqening after doubling the size of its showru)m area...

Anniversary: Huglus ltntber Co., Bartlesville, Ok-,50th

Mississippi Reman Co., Louisville, Ms., is a new company spocializing in dimension, decking, cut stock and timbcrs; owrer Lisa G. Palmer, formerly with D&I

Wood Products, plans her own remanufacturing facility within a year...

Roy O. Martin Lumber Co., Alexandria, La'., has broken ground in Shopin, La., on a new SYP plywood mill to go on line early next.year, James Parham, mgr....

Hood Industries, Hattiesbure. Ms., has signed a definitive agr6ment to acquire McEwen Lwnber Co;s 14 DCs (see story p. 19)

Bruce Hardwood Floors, Dallas; Tx., has donated $23,000 to the Hardwood Forestry Fund, Reston, Va., to plant 16,600 seedlings

.Kery\ech Plastics, Inc., Hopkinsville, Ky., and Independencb, Ia., producer of plastic shutters and building products accessories, has been acquired by ABT Building Products Corp.

Boise Cascade has broken ground on a 53-acre site near Alexandria; La., for a $49 million engineered wood products plant; completion: mid- to late-1996

Louisiana-P acific Corp. will open a new OSB mill rhis fall in Roxboro, N.C., and another in Jasper, Tx., early next year

V&B Manufacturing Co., Walnut Ridge, Ar., has acquired G ilb e rt's S awmill, Centreville. Tn., from Robert Gilbert and $ded 1dry kiln in Walnut Ridge, increasing production capacity of wood tool handles bv 50Vo

_ Hydrokinetic Designs, Coral Gables, Fl., has filed Juit against Resources Conservatioi Co. claiming patent infringement over their twin-head showei systems ...

Trus Joist MacMillan plans to open by next month a $100 million TimberStrand laminated strand lumber plant near Hazard,, Ky. (Durwood Brady, plant mgr.); the facility, along with an LVL/PSL plant nearing comple- tion in Buckhannon, W.V., irriil utilize commercially neglected yellow poplar

Norbord Industries Inc. is scheduled to open a new OSB mill 9y th" end of the month in Ttrpelo, Ms...

Marks Forest Products Co-. Birmingham, Al., has merged with Georgia Timber Speciallst, Inc., Fayetteville, Ga. -

Kwikset Corp.is set to break ground in Waynesboro, Ga., on its 4th lockset manufacturing plant, to begin operations late ne*iye* .'..

Toto Kiki USA Inc. has purchased a 166,000-sq. ft, sitL in Morrow, Ga., to construct its 2nd factory in the Atlanta, Ga., area; the plant should begin production of toilet tanks in Dea. 1996 ...

North American Buildins Material Distribution Associaiion has fornred the Kitchen/Bath Distribution Alliance, composed of cabinet distributors and manufacturers; the group is NBMDAs flrst productfocused segment, joining three customer-focused membership segments

Housing starts for April (latest figs.) rose O.4Vo to a s-easonally adjusted rate of l.24 million; mu[- tifamily starts rose 2.4Eo, single family fell 0.Ic/o ... building permits were ap O.6Vo starts in the South climbed 2.6%.

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