NEWS BRIEFS

McCoy's Building Supply Centers in Bryan and Huntsville, Tx., will be relocated to new facilities with better highway access by year's end ...

West Building Materials has closed stores in Memphis, Tn., and Statesboro, Ga. ...

F.L. Davis Builders Supply, Greers Ferry, Ar., is nearing completion of a new store at the Clinton, Ar., site of the Shannon Lumber Co. that was destroyed by fire

Builders Square has been put up for sale by parent Kmart ... the chain is opening a 110,000-sq. ft. Builders Square /1 in Clearwater, Fl., to replace its smaller Largo, Fl., unit, and has dropped plans to build a 109,000-sq. ft. replacement store across the street from Home Depot in Lakeland, Fl. ... the former Sunrise, Fl., Builders Square has reopened as a Burlington Coat Factory...

84 Lumber Co. has opened new units in Russellville, Ky., mgr. Joe Camp, co-mgr. Dan Rowe, and Keller, Va., mgr. Todd Johnson, co-mgr. Bobby Burns ...

Scottyb is now the official sponsor of Aubumdale Speedway; the chain has remodeled its Seminole, Fl., store and opened a 77,000-sq. ft. unit in Clermont, Fl., mgr. Jim Crew

Home Depot opened a new store Aug. 3l in Chattanooga, Tn.; began construction in Hickory, N.C., for a spring opening, and has agreed to co-anchor with WalMart the proposed Valley Creek

Mall in Garland, Tx. ... the owner of a 20-acre site in Jupiter, Fl., has dropped the last two of four lawsuits filed against the town in renrrn for speedier council consideration of rezoning to allow adding a Home Depot

Lowe's has opened a new unit in Waco, Tx., and replacement superstores in Elizabethtown and Paducah, Ky.; is nearing completion of stores in Cartersville and Newnan, Ga.; Mobile, Al.; Baton Rouge, La., and Victoria, Baytown, Texas City and Wichita Falls, Tx., and has begun constmction in Statesboro, Ga. ...

Lowe's will open in Amarillo, Killeen, Lubbock, Midland and Temple, Tx., late next year; is considering entering Corinth, Ms.,

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$100,000 grant towards a rail spur extension at its Vonorc, Tn., location...

Plymart, Norcross, Ga., has broken ground on a 34-acre tract in Stathanu Ga, for an 85,00Gsq. ft. plant/sales facility and l2,(XDsq. ft. specialty outlet" hoping to complete the $5 million project by Thanksgiving...

McSlun lttmber, McShan, Al., addd a Forano 30" debarter with hydrostatic hydraulic drive ...

Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s Madison, Ga., plywood facility logged I million straight labor hours without an OSHA-recordable rccident...

Norbord Industries Inc. began production at its $90 million, 425 million sq. ft. annual capacity OSB mill nearTlrpelo, Ms.

Swirl-way, Henderson, Tx., has been acquired by Mansficld Plumbing Prcducts and Columbus, Ga.; got the goahead from local commissions to build a 130,00Gsq. ft. replacement store in Wright, Fl., and a l l5,00Gsq. ft. unit in Lufkin, Tx.; added a 5,000-sq. ft. lumber storage shed at its Chattanooga, Tn., Contrae:tor Yarcl, and received a

Sterling Plumbing Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kohler Co., has begun construction on a new multi-million dollar, 40,000-sq. ft. plastic injection plant in Sheridan, Ar. ...

Boral Bricks, fnc., Augusta, Ga., has acquired Bickcrstaff CIat Products Co., Inc., with seven plants in Ga and Al.

Hunter Fan Co., Memphis, Tn., has consolidated operations from four satellite warehouses into a new 220,000-sq. ft. Memphis distribution center ...

Housittg starts in July (latest figs.) jumped 6.7%, the fourth straight monthly advance and largest gain in 16 months, to an annual rate of 1.38 million ... single-family starts rose 6.8%, multifamily construction climbed 65%, and building permis rose 5.3% the South posted a 155% incrcase in starts.