NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Harrison Lumber Co., Caryville, Fl., has closed

Grant Countv Lumber & Hardware Co., Medford, Ok., has opened in the former Home Lumber location; Neal Williams, mgr....

W.C. Harmon Larnber Co., Oneonta, Al., has closed

I*slie Lumber, Leslie, Ar., has been renamed Dertclcson Lumber with its repurchase by Bill Derickson

Dtos Wholesale Building Sup- p/y, Tecumseh, Ok., sold its McAlester, Ok., yard ...

Scotty's opened hardware stores in Fort Lauderdale, Plantation and Port Orange, Fl. (Lois Jenkins, mgr.), and a 50,000-sq. ft. home center in a vacant Wal-Mart building in Palm Coast, Fl. the chain celebrated the grand reopening of 30 remodeled stores last month

J.E. Hathcock Lumber Co., Dothan, AI., has closed

Calcasieu Lumber, founded in 1893, Austia, Tx-, has been acquired from its 71 shareholders by c.e-o- Nick Monis, gteat grandson ofthe founder

TruServ Corp. is closing its Fort Smith, Ar., DC and will serve the area from its Il. and S.D. DCs

Home Depot opens stores this month in Falls Church, Va., and Valdosta, Ga.; has broken ground for a 130,000-sq. ft. store in Fort Walton Beach, Fl.; will relocate its Fort Myers, Fl., unit to a larger 124,000-sq. ft. building by spring; got the go-ahead from the county planning commission to build a 101,820-sq. ft. store with garden center in Marathon, Fl.; has bid $4.5 million for 26.6 acres in Orange City, Fl., and is considering sites in Hampton Roads, Va.

Home Depot plans a 112,00Gsq. ft. store on 11.5 acres in Bossier City, La.; a 102,0o0-sq. ft. store with 30,00Gsq. ft. garden center in Rock Hill, S.C., for a spring opening, and a $3.4 million, 112,847sq. ft. prototype store to open early next year in Conroe, Tx., emphasizing paint and floor coverings and with all of its squarc footage inside the store

Loweb Cos. opened 150,00Gsq. ft. replacement stores in Clarksville, Tn. (Rick Haggard, store mgr.), and Burlington, N.C. Cferrl' Johnson, mgr.), replacing the Reidsville unit; a l34,0OO-sq. ft. replacement store in Columbia, S.C. (Jim Sharkey, mgr.), and new 150,000-sq. ft. locations in Titusville, Fl. (Bob Swink, mgr.), and two near Jacksonville, Fl., in Regency and Mandarin (Billy Sarvis, mgr.)

Loweb is building a l3Q00Gsq. ft. store in Lewisville, Tx-; a 113,000-sq. ft. store with 30,00G sq. ft. garden center in Somerset, Ky.; a replacement store in Hot Springs, Ar., and a replacement store nearly twice the size of its adjacent 4-year-old, 65,000-sq. ft. unit in Houma, La.

Lowe's is considering a site in Pinkard Court for its second Roanoke, Va., location; is negotiating for a site in Roebuck (Birmingham), Al.; plans two stores in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth, Tx., area, and won rezoning approval to co-anchor with Wal-Marr a strip center on 62 acres in West Meade (Nashville), Tr., despite citizen protests in November 1998, the company will begin moving more than 700 employees to the 265,000-sq. ft. first phase of its new corporate Hq. at Wilkes Mall, North Wilkesboro, N.C. ...

A burglary suspect was nabbed after springing an alarm at Hechinger's, Springfield, Va. ...

Wholeaalers & Manufacturers

Brown & Taylor Lurnber Co., /2c., Sheridan, Ar., has closed Willanctte Indastries closed its Bienville Parish, La., plywood plant due to an oversupply of products and furcrcased wood prices ...

Marlcy MouHings, Marion, Va, lost a 30,000-sq. ft. warehouse with over I million lbs. of recycled plastic material and goods to an Aug. 20 fire of unknown origrn; nearby residents were evacuated and operations closed for trro days due to possibly hazadous fimes ...

TJ International will build a $45 million, l5o,fiX}'sq. ft L\/L and Ijoist plant in Evergreen, AL, for a late'98 start-up ...

Canercn Ashley BuiWkg Pmducts, Dallas, Tx., addcd locatios in Ringgold and Gainesville, Ga-, and acquired 3-unit, S.C.-based siding distribrutorDMG Suppty ...

Owens Corning agreed to buy vinyl siding md window producer AmeriM ark Building P roducts, /nc., Raleigh, NC., with l0 plants and 6O DCs for$3lOmillion

M organ P roducts, Williamsburg, Va., bougbt Wah$eU Manufacturing, a distributor of Anderscn and other millwort producs

Int e rnational Trading Group's millwork division, El Paso, Tx., is now mid-America sales agent for Terranova Forest Products' new Superlight 30 MDF ...

Burly Corp. of North America, Burleson, Tx., has broken ground on a 12,0(X)-sq. ft. addition to its ShefieW Wire Pro&rcts plant

Hitachi Koki USA has built a new warehouse in Pendergrass, Ga.

Full House Co. is building a 20,000-sq. ft. plant in West Melbourne, Fl., to produce door machinery not prehung doors as previously reported

New Web sites: Cameron Ashley Building Products, www. cabp.com McSlun ltnber Co., www.mcshanlumber.com

Housing starts in July (latest figs.) remained flat at a 1.447 million annual rate ... single-family construction's 3Vo increase was offset by a decrease in multi-family . starts fell2.4% in the South.

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