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Jacob Levy &Bros., Louisville, Ky., parent of four-unit Levy's Lumber & Building Materials, h?s been purchased by holding company Falls View Enterprise.i, headed by Wayne Burd ...

National Home Centers, Springdale, Ar., is returning its focus to contractor sales at its eight remaining yards; as part of the move, the chain has sold its Fayetteville superstore to Home Depot; is liquidating its 200,000sq. ft. Rogers store, which will be taken over next month by Lowe's; leasing out its older Rogers location; reducing the Russellville store from 95,000 to 30,000 sq. ft., and has sold two parcels of undeveloped land for approximately $2 million...

Higginbotham-Bartlett Co. opened store #35 in Eastland, Tx.; Mark Wilcox, store mgr.

The Building Center, Pineville, N.C., is expanding its Huntersville, N.C., location by 20,000 sq. ft. and in Aug. is adding its third yard in Rock Hill, N.C.

Lowe's Cos. has opened new stores in Naples, Fl. (Rob Herbert, store mgr.; Lloyd Mullins, comgr.), and Crossville, Tn. (Paul Mayberry, store mgr.; Tom Yeatts, co-mgr.), and next month opens its first in Orlando, Fl., and a superstore in Hunters Crossing (Alcoa), Tn., to replace a unit in nearby Maryville ...

Lowe's is building new stores in Aiken and Buford, S.C.; plans a 150,000-sq. ft. replacement store in Greer, S.C.; is considering a site in Martinsville, Va., for a 115,000sq. ft. replacement store; submitted plans for a137,197-sq. ft. store in Williamsburg, Va., and is battling residents over a proposed 165,000-sq. ft. store in Tampa, Fl. ... its Vero Beach, Fl., store recentlv was shut down for several hours after 40 gallons of muriatic acid spilled in the garden center... Lowe's board of directors approved a two-for-one split of its common shares

Home Depot opens a new store July 30 in Allen, Tx.; is building a new store in Buford, S.C., and for a second time postponed its rezoning presentation to the Aiken, S.C., planning commission ...

Home Depot plans to open 137 new stores and relocate six in fiscal 1998 and add 170 stores in 1999, costing an estimated $13.1 million fqr each opening plus $3.6 million apiece for inventory the chain started construction of its thlrd building at Vinings, Ga., corporate Hq., to complete the l8story, 674,000-sq. ft. structure by late next year; plans are to double the size of the complex to seven buildings with a total2.6 million sq. ft. by 2Ol3 ...

F o xw o rth - G alb raith Lumb e r Co. recently helped sponsor a Habitat of Humanity house in Belton, Tx. ...

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Spartanburg Timber Co., Greenville, S.C., is operating a new remanufacturing and distribution plant in Waynesboro, Ga. ...

Cameron Ashley Building Products, Dallas, Tx., agreed to buy Lafayette Wood-Works, Inc., Lafayette, La., and Ozark Construction Supply Co., Columbia, Mo., and completed its acquisition of Millwork Specialties, Inc., Albany, N.Y. ...

Lincoln Lumber Co., Conroe, Tx., added a Dallas-Fort Worth, Tx., office; John Bennett, sales ...

Armstrong World Industries agreed to buy Triangle Pacific Corp., Dallas, Tx., for about $890 million plus the assumption of $260 million in debt

Leslie Building Products, Inc., agreed to sell the assets of lnslieLocke, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., to GAF Materials Corp. for $40 million ...

Temco Fireplace Products, Inc., Nashville, Tn., has acquired the assets, tooling and technology for a direct-vent gas fireplace line from Toronto-based GSW,Inc. ...

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Thomas & Betts Corp., Memphis, Tn., acquired tooling, patents and trademarks from Electrical Specialties Mfg.,Lodi, Ca. ...

Diamond Hill Plywood Co., Darlington, S.C., is now stocking Trex plastic decking in the Carolinas at five of its 1l DCs ...

Wi ndme re - D urab le H oldin g s Inc., Miami Lakes, Fl., agreed to pay $315 million for most of Black & Decker Corp.'s household products division

Stanley Works subsidiary Sranley Door Systems sold its garage door-related business to Whistler Corp.

BHK of America will complete its 48,000-sq. ft. South Boston, Va., vinyl and wood drawer plant this summer...

Anniversaries: W.H. Maze Co., Peru, Il., 150th .. . Peace Builders Supply, Magnolia, Ar., 75th Gordon White Lumber Co., Lindsay, Ok., 50th ...

Housing starts in May (latest figs.) slipped l%o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.530 million, still 97o above the year-earlier level single-family construction remained flat at 1.228 million, multi-family was at 40,000 for 2-4 units, 262,000 for 5+ units permits rose 2Vo to 1.545 million.

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