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84 Lumber plans 70 new stores and conrplete upgrades of 350 existing locations by the end of '92: I l7 units already have a new look with 40 in progress including Pelhanr, lrondale and Mid- field, Al, and Sintpsonville, s.c....

Euilders Square /rc. purchased q !85,000 sq. ft. nranufacturing building in San Antonio, Tx., to renrodel as corporate hq. with a spring 1992 nrove-in date. hired Hispano Southwest to develop a progranr targeting the Hispanic nrarket, and hired Mabon Securities Corp. and Jeflerson Capital Group Ltd., Alexandria, Va., to help raise $8 nrillion in equity capital and opened a new Raleigh, N.C., unit with a grand opening due this month.

Columbia Lumber Co., Colunrbia, S.C., acquired personneland sonre assets of Sonlhern States Construction Co. Kempsville Building Materials, /rc. opened a new location in Virginia Beach, Va....

Leeds Euilding Products closed stores in Anderson, S.C., North Fort Myers, Fl., and Carrollton. Va., moving inventory to nearby stores, cutting the company to 29 funtberyards. Tish Lumber, Tishonringo, Ok., opened a new showroom with a lunrber shed and additional parking scheduled to replace the old building.

R d R Lumber Co. is the nante given Lindley Lumber Co.. Clarendon, Ok., by new owners Jesse, Carolyn, Jimmy and Jackie Rogers ... Home Lumber Co., Buffalo, Ok.. has been reopened as Bu.llblo Lumber Co.. Doug Conrpton n'tgr.

Lowe's relocated its Johnson city, Tn., store with plans for adding units in Oxford, Al., Charlotte and Hickory, N.C., and Murfreesboro,Tn....

Home Depot is looking for a site in Leon County, Fl., with plans for Brentwood, Tn.. and Alexandria, Va., stores: a west Fort Worth, Tx., store has been expanded; a Plano, Tx., unit will relocate this nronth and the Mesquite, Tx., location in Oct....

Malone Lumber Do- It- Yoursell, Greenville, Ky., won $2,500 in the Anres Garden Spree sweepstakes ... Hindman Promarl Home Center, Hindnran, Ky., received Pro Hardware's Paul L. Cosgrave Award ... Jack's Di.rcount Building Materials. Lucedale, Ms., received a retailer of the year award . .

Massey Building Supply, Richnrond, Va., shipped nraterials for a conrplete 2,400 sq. ft. house to a South Korea developer to use as a nrodel for homes to be built.

Nortltland Corp. added a 24,000 sq. ft. bldg. for product distribution at its La Grange, Ky., hq. and purchased the Pal Brown Lumber Co. facilities at Lexington, N.C....

Anniversaries: Benson Lumber Co., Pawhuska, Ok., 75th; Prossel Lumber Co., San Antonio, Tx., 4lst.

Global Forest Resourc'es Development Corp., a joint venture between Sunrise Plywood Corp. and 7 other contpanies and

Market Resource Associotes, Inc., a consultant for building nraterial nrfrs., was opened by John D. Cashntore in Minneapolis, Mn... Michael Weining, Inc., expanded its Moulding Tech School at Statesville, N.C., hq....

Lewis Lumber and Mlk. Co.. Cove, Ar., is adding a pressure treating cylinder ... Cresr Mlk. Co., an exclusive Texas licensee o! Ridge M.lk. Co., Sun Valley, Ca., plans a nrfg. facility and warehousing at its Ennis, Tx.. facility. . .

TJ International Inc.'s Trus Joisl Corp. div. and MacMillan Eloedel's Futurewood businesses set Sept. 30 as tentative start-up date for their joint venture partnership. .

Harris-Tarkel/'s new $35 million, 300,000 sq. ft. hardwood flooring manufacturing plant in Johnson City, Tn., is now in operation with a l2 nrillion sq. ft. per year capacity . .

P. W. Plumly Lumber Corp., Winchester, Va., lost its sawdust storage building in a fire of undeternrined origin Arkansas International Inc., Theodore, Al., lost a warehouse full of southern pine in a blaze called "the nrost stubborn fire in years" by authorities.

Housing starts for June (latest figs.) were up 5.20h to an annually adjusted pace of 1.04 nrillion units... single fanrily starts rose to an 868,000 annual rate and multiunits to 172-000 pernrits edged up 3.70h all areas except the west recorded Increases. .