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Patterson Lumber & Home Center, Kosciusko, Ms., is liquidating due to the retirement of owner Charles Patterson, who recently underwent hip replacement surgery

Builders FirstSource. Dallas. Tx., has acquired Suwannee Truss Co.. Lake City, Fl., and agreed to purchase 72-year-old, 3-unit Goldston's Building Supply, Wake Forest, N.C.

Elliott's Hardware added 50,@0 sq. ft. store #3 in Plano, Tx.

84 ltmber opened new 20,000sq. ft. locations in Calhoun, Ga. (store mgr. Mike Dulin, co-mgr. Glen Golden, outside salesman Scott Carter); Bardstown, Ky. (store mgr. Brian Cobb); Paragould, Ar. (store mgr. Steve Davis), and Malvern, Ar. (store mgr. Richard Gonzales, co-mgr. Tom McCraw, yard mgr. John Harding, mgr. trainees Brad Fames, Mark Clifton and Earth Roberts, cashiers Geri Lucas and Terri Rhodes, outside salesmen Craig Cowart, Stan Pendergrass, Kelly Fitzhugh)

84 Lumber held a grand reopening at its newly remodeled store in London, Ky.; plans a September opening in Waveland, Ms., and began construction on 7.8 acres in Silsbee, Tx., for a fall unveiling of the 20,400-sq. ft, stare, its first in East Texas and one of about six 84 is developing in the state ...

Pleasants Hardware is downsizing a Richmond, Va., store by two-thirds to 20,000 sq. ft. and acquired three-unit Tom Brown Hardware, Richmond

Lowe 's opened new stores in Kingsport, Tn. (Greg Hatfield, store mgr.); No. Central Houston and Pearland, Tx., as well as replacement stores in Hixson. Tn. (Jim Rhodes, store mgr.), and

Lincolnton, N.C. (Randy Anderson, store mgr.) ... the chain is about to begin construction of a new location in Wytheville, Va.; plans a December opening in Pascagoula, Ms.; will open replacement stores in Galax, Va., and Morganton, N.C., in the winter; plans a spring opening in Russell, Ky., and has begun construction of replacement stores in Richmond, Va., and Hammond, La., where a 13,000-sq. ft. store closed a year ago ...

Lowe's is scouting for a site in Weatherford. Tx., and received permission to temporarily close off a street that runs through the middle of its property in Decatur, Al., so a larger replacement store can be built ... residents in Lilburn, Ga., filed suit over alleged environmental damages caused by development of a Lowe's unit ncw under construction in Stone Mountain, Ga.

Cadle's Berryville Lumber Co, Berryville, Va., recently remodeled to coincide with its switchover from Golden Rule to True Value

Home Depot opens new home centers this month in Clearwater, Fl., and Christiansburg, Va.; is seeking approval to build a replacement store in Huntsville, Al., and bought Scotty s Naples, F1., store, which it will raze to build a new store by year's end

Ace Hardware Corp. signed on its first franchisees in Singapore andHong Kong...

Anniversaries:- M ahoning Lumber Center of Florida, 60th ...

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Diamond Hill Ptvwood Co.. Darlington, S.C., has'added satellite DCs in Thomasville, Ga., and Winter Haven, Fl.

Willamette Industrie s anticipates a June start-up of its new sawboard mill in Chester, S.C.; Robert "Sandy" Trewolla, sawmill superintendent

Maingate Corp., Houston, Tx., has merged rnto ChanneLinx.com, Inc., Greenville, S.C. ...

Louisiana-Pacific sold its Philadelphia, Ms., sawmill to Neshoba Lumber, comprised of a local group ofinvestors

Associated Materials Inc., Dallas, Tx., agreed to sell its Liberty, N.C.-based UltraCraft frameless cabinet manufacturing operation to Norcraft Cos. LLC ..1

Cameron Ashley Building Products, Dallas, Tx., recently closed branches in Harlingen, Tx., Tacoma and Spokane,'Wa.

Armstrong Wortd Indastries vowed that by the end of next year its wood products operations division, Triangle Pacific Corp., Dallas, Tx., would buy only timber harvested under Best Management Practices ...

New Web site: National Fenestration Rating Council, www.nfrc.org...

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Housing starts in April (latest figs.) climbed 37o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.663 million single family starts remained flat at a 1.329 million rate, multifamily was at a pace of 307,000 for 5+ units and 27,A00 for 2-4 units permits slipped l%a to I.574 million units

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