NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Fagen's Building Centers has closed its kcanto, Fl., unit ...

Simms-Moore Lwnber Ca. and Bush Lutnber Co. owners have formed a new company, SimmsMoore-Bush LLC, at the SimmsMoore site in Frisco, Tx.; Bush's Dallas, Tx., site was sold ...

Foxworth-Galbraith held a grand reopening at its newly remodeled Building Project Center in Borger, Tx.

Future Designs opened a horne center/lumberyard and plumbing and electrical wholesale business in a 15,000-sq.ft. metal building in Leitchfield, Ky., complete with an 8,105-sq. ft. showroom; Kevin Brooks, gen. mgr.

Stigler Horne Center, Stigler, Ok., held a recent grand opening under new owners Bill and Annette Cariker

Ideal Lumber Co., Crossett, Ar., has remodeled its sales floor and office area; the expanded sales area makes it one of southeast Arkansas' largest home centers

Barton's, Eudora Ar., has purchased the adjacent former site of a hardware store to renovate into office, display and sales space ...

Waldschmidt Lurnber Co., Wickliffe, Ky., is closing after neady 100years...

Scotty's has opened a 21,000sq. ft. super hardware store in Largo, Fl., Dan Nunez, mgr.; an 8,70Gsq. ft. hardware store in Eau Gallie, Fl., David Andrews, mgr., and a 12,0@-sq.ft.hardware store in Port Charlotte, Fl., Doris Maggio, mgr., replacing the unit closed in December the chain, forecasting 20 stores in the area within three years, is also closing four older Orlando, Fl., stores to be replaced in mid-Aug. by three units, each about 1O00Gsq. ft. ...

Home Depot is opening a 102,000-sq. ft. store with 28,00G sq. ft. garden center this month in central Charlotte, N.C.; is considering an unspecified site in Anderson, S.C., and anchoring a proposed 40-acre retail center in West Houston, Tx.; paid $6.6 million for a 20-acre lot in Jupiter, Fl., for a 130,00Gsq. ft. unit, and submitted preliminary plans for a 126,252-sq. ft. location in Fort Pierce, Fl.

Lowe's Cos. opened a 135,00G sq. ft. unit in High Point, N.C., followed by a record 10 store openings in one day, including superstores in Mount Airy N.C.; Bryan, Tx.; Beaumont, Tx., mgr. Darwin Davis; Texarkana, Tx., store mgr. Rodney Burns, operations mgr. Glenn Pendleton, and Corinth, Ms., store mgr. Steve Garrard, operations mgr. Tim O'Hara...

Lowe's plans a 130,000-sq. ft. store in San Marcos, Tx.; will open 150,00Gsq. ft. in fifirsville, Fl., in early 1997; is considering Beaumont Centre and Richmond Rd. sites in Lexington, Ky., for 130,00Gsq. ft. units; is negotiating to acquirc a site in Clayton, Ga., for a 150,00Gsq. ft. store; is nearing completion of its 1,000,000. sq. ft. regional distribution aenter in Olin, N.C., and paid $3.a million for 26 acres in Albany, Ga,, for a 115,00Gsq. ft. unit to replace by October the 85,00Gsq. ft- store destroyed by fire April 16 ...

Alamo Lumber, San Antonio, Tx., will open is 15th location in Oct. in El Campo, Tx.; Clay Garner, mgr.

Anniversaries: Cox Hatdwarc & Inmbq, Houston, Tx.,50th Lafayette Wood-Works, Inc., Lafayette, Ia, 50th Anvwluad Lumber Sales Inc.. Oklahoma city, ok., l5th ...

Wholesalerc &

Tanufacturels

P rudential Building Materials, Atlanta, Ga., has opened a new distribution center in Theodore (Mobile), Al., providing fasteners and other prcducts to sorthem Al., Ms., La andFl. ...

Envbvworks, Inc., Apopka, Fl., has acquired Rubbermaid Speciaby Prcducts' rcsin plantcr business ...

Trcpitech Cmthgs & Rescarch Inc. and Perma Marine Intcrmational, Fort Myers, Fl., owrcr Fran Koebert and family have acquired Mants Coatings & Research md will relocate the businesses to Manus' 10,000-sq. ft. facility in Naple.s, Fl.

Alunaxl2c., Norcross, Ga., has agrred to sell part of its Fabricatcd Products business to Euramar International, IJd. for $245 million; the sale includes Ahnrcx Appliance and Spccialty Pdrcts, Inc.; Alwrux BuiUing Prcducts, Inc.; Alunax Coatcd Products, Inc.; Alwux Door Pn&rcts lrc.; Alurrrox Hottc Prcdrcts Divkion; Alumar Ellbee Isd. and Alwur Coated Products U.K. Ltd. (England); Alumax Coated Prc&c* B.V (The Nctherlands); Alwnax C@ted Prducts Si. and Alumax Industries S.A. (France), brlfi not Alwux Magolb Division in Arkansas orany Ka'wneeratchitectural aluminum operations ...

Bird Vinyl Products, Bardstown, Ky., rwived ISO 9002 certification fq its siding, soffit and trim...

Architectural Woodwo* htstitute ha;s moved its Hq. from Centevile, Va, to Rcstm" Va

Hotlrsilzlg starts for func (latost figs.) rose 1.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual ratc of f.,$ million" including 1.255 million sir glefamily and 255,(m mfti

(Plcarc arn to p. 23)