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Builders Square has opened the first of three new warehouse stores in the metro Atlanta, Ga., area, home turf of pioneer Home Depot

HomeClub will open two 100,000 sq. ft.f warehouse units in El Paso, Tx., before the end of the year. both with almost 10,000 sq. ft. of nursery space l'orktowne /nc. has acquired a 175.000 sq. ft. distribution center in York. Pa.. to serve customers east of the N'lississippi River . Heil-Quaker Corp., Orlando. Fl.. will replace the Whirlpool name with Tempstar on its heating and cooling products

Home Depot opened a new store in Port RicheY, Fl., with construction underway on another new unit in Douglasville, Ga.: a Knoxville. Tn.. store is due to open before the end ofthe year...

Wiener Enterprises Int'., Harahan, La., plans to open two additional home inrprovement centers before the end of the year for its recently acquired Builderoma subsidiary . . the Allv'oods store in San Angelo, Tx., is now a Westlake Hardware...

Lox'e's opened a new store in South Montgomery. Al.. and reopened remodeled Southport. N.C., and Petersburg, Va.. stores as well as a relocated Charlotte. N.C.. store and closed a Norman, Ok.. unit. in Rock Hill, S.C., Lowe's will expand an existing store and build a new unit: an existing Monroe. N.C.. store will be expanded with new stores slated for Gastonia. N{onroe. Concord and Lake Norman. N.C....

Scotty's has new units in Starke, Panama City, Tampa. Inverness. Pensacola. Altamonte Springs and Bradenton, Fl., and Mobile. Al., with a Pembroke Pines. Fl., store due to open Nov. 5; Ciainesville and Leesburg, Fl., units are in the planningstage...

W'est Building I'laterials, Lakeland. Fl.. has added an IXL Automatic Kitchen Design System to its customer service plan Handy Dan. Denton. Tx.. and ll4oore's Raleigh. N.C.. have closed . . . Buildings formerlt' occupied by' three Li ndsle.v'stores in Palm Beach County, Fl.. have been sofd by Lindsley' Inc.

Co.x Luntber Co.. New Port Richey'. Fl.. has expanded its Brooksville. Fl.. location with a 1.5 million renovation of the existing retail store and the addition of a new pre-ltung door plant: the-v- also plan a new facilitv in Cr1'stal River. Fl.

Pre/erred ,l[illwork, 1nc.. will open a new 55,000 sq. ft. millwork facility in Butler, Mo.. for hardwood millwork/moulding using Weinig equipment. Tim Bull. president, in charge.

Louisia na - Paci./'ic Corp. will build a new Waferwood plant in Jackson County'. Ga... Willamette Induslries has opened a second line of medium density fiberboard production at its Malvern. Ar., operation. making it the largest MDF plant in the world.

Klean-.Strip, a Div. of W.,V. Barr & Co., Inc., Memphis. Tn., has acquired a line of paint removers from KWIK... Giles & Kendall, Huntsville, Al.. has acquired Aromatic Cedar Products Int'., Gainesville, Mo., no pricerevealed...

Building Products Digest

USG Indus(ries, lnc. plans to purchase DAP Inc., from Beecham Group PLC, Landon, England . UC Industries, Inc. has opened a distribution center in Anniston. Al. . Masonite Corp. has purchased INT4MASA (medium density fiberboard), Barcelona, Spain, for an undisclosedamount...

Bruce Hardwood Floors. a div. of Triangle Pacific Corp.. Dallas. Tx., has acquired a 200,000 sq. ft. n"lanufacturing building on 50 acres in Port Gibson. Ms.

Eastex Forest Products, Houston. Tx., will have a new treating plant with a 60 ft. double door tube operational in mid Nov. or Dec. with plans to build a kiln at a later date: Rod Didier. treated productsmgr....

Red Mountain Forest Products has opened a new distribution warehouse in Birmingham. Al.. Charles Pitts. mgr., Barbara Loftis, sales . . . Lea.f River Foresl Products, Inc., New Augusta, Ms., celebrated producing its 500.000.000th b.f. of southern pine dimension lumber last month...

GAF has started Wood Line shingle production at its Dallas, Tx.. plant. the Bird lnc. plant, Bardstown. Ky'.. has become an exclusive manufacturer and marketer of Trocal vinl'l rvindou' and door profiles under license from Dvnmir ,\'obel, JG Troisdorf. WestCiernran!...

Trus Joist willdouble a Natchitoches. La.. plant's capacit-v- in a S8.5 nr illion expansion Geo rgia - Pac' iJ'it'. Atlanta, Ga., has acquired i\{adison. Ga., timberlands. a pl-""wood plant and chip-n-saw mill from l'is.v Board Inc.. a subsidiart of Pratt Holdings Pt-r'. Llrl.. Australia

Housi ngstarts in August (latest figs.) dropped l.5tl' to an annual rate of 1.582.000 . . . multifamil-'" starts were up 6.ltl'; single family starts dropped 4.5'\' .. bldg. permits fell 0.1'7, . . starts in the south fell 0.9olr . .

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