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Builders Souare ooened a new 200,000 sq. ft., ft+ m[lton headquarters bulldlng and a Butlders Square II pototype sore ln San Antonlo, Tl.: announced plans to relocate three other San Antonlo stores and a Corpus CMstl, Tt., unit; sought approval of a 107,000 sq. ft. store ln Delray Beach, Ft.

Iawe's opened a Harbison, S.C., store; shopped for a Rome, G&., slte; announced relocadon of an Opellka, Al., unit later thls year, a new Owensboro, Ky., store ln 1993 and a Cookevllle, Tn., locaflon under constructlon

Home Depot paid $10 million for land ln Oklahoma City, Ok., to bulld a second unit: continued negotiatlons to buy a Merritt Island, Fl., site; resubmitted plans for a 130,370 sq. ft. Tallahassee, Fl., store and opened a drivetbrough recycling depot in Atlanta, Ga" (See story p. 37)

Plymart opened its 5th north Georgia location in Fonyth County ... Izeds BuiWing Products Inc. sold Florence and Greenville, S.C., Clinton, Kinston and Wilmington, N.C., locations to P elic an Companies .Iac., Conway, S.C., which will operate the units as Pelican's,,.

Cox Lwnber Co., St. Petersburg, Fl., acquired Panning ktmber, Orlando, Fl., adding six sites for a total of 20 Florida stores plus two in the Cayman Islands Square Deal Lumber Co. moved its custom millwork shop into new 11,500 sq. ft. quarters at the Cave City, Ky.,location...

Oakley b,rnber and Supply,Laverne, Ok., added a fenced storage lot across the street from the store ... Southside Building Materials, Springdale, Ar., has moved to

Fremont St. Mtfi a branch ofilce ln Rogers ,,, Yeager's, V8rt Buren, Ar., flnlshed remodellnc lts recently acquired ex-Highes Innber Co. slte tn Ft. Smith

Buildcrs Warehouse Assoc iates, Conway, Ar., purchas d Castlenutt Lumber Co. vards tn Cluksvllle and Parls ,,, rt,odgers Lumber and Supply Co., Hot Springs, Ar., is chan$ng lts name to Hot Springs Lumber & Supply Co. H. E. Keeter Innber Co., Inc., Mountaln Home, Ar., recently purchased by Bob Wedgeworth and John Reese, ls now affiliated with Ace Hardware...

Crow Builders Supply, Inc. closed a Lonoke, Ar., unit, consolidating operations at Carllsle, Ar., with a new branch yard in Hazen, Ar., Ritchie Crow mgr./owner ,,, Ridout Lwnber Co. will build its l0fir retail location in Fayetteville, Ar., with Kenneth Bradle moving there ftom Russellville as mgr. ...

Joe Davidson, Sr. opened Davidson's Cash and Carry Lumber and Hardware in Marvell, Ar. Cedar Creek Wholesale /nc., T\rlsa, Ok., added a new location with railroad access and warehouse space ...

Pe ac htree Door s .lzc., Norcross, Ga., increased patio door production staffing W in g Industries purchased Monarch Mircor Door Co.'s octagon window business, relocating mfg. operations to Greenville, Tx., from Chatsworth, Ca.

Skil Corp.'s Heber Springs, Ar., plant is now certified to the internationally accepted quality assurance standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) CooperTools, Raleigh, N.C., recelved an awrrd from the General Semices Admlnistation on the annlversary of Operation Desert Storm recognlzlng outstondlng tool productton durlng themllltary actlon

Stanlcy Tools wu a nomlnee in the annual Maguine Publislwrs of Amcrica advertlslng award competltlon employees from Stine hmber Co.'s foru stores and central offlce, Sulphur, LL., donued $2,(n0 to Hurrlcane Andrew vfctlms Merrifield Consulthg Group, Izc., relocated to Chapel Hlll, N.C. ...

Annlversarles: Vetter, an SilE' Enterprises, Inc., dlv.,l0OttU Cofer Brothers, Tucker, Ga., 73rd: Frierson Building Supply, Jackson, Ms.,3lst; Inwe's, Mt. Alry, N.C., 21st...

Mountain City Lumber Co., National Hardwood Lumber Association, Tennessee Forestry Association and the Multi-Use Association of the Southeast we seeking to intervene in t preservadonist lawsuit challenging the forest plan for tbe Cherokee National Forest inTennessec ...

Madison Wood Preservers, Madison, Va., opened a state of the art treating plant with a series of open houses ... Westwood Forest Pro&rcts has a new warehouse facility in Browns Summit, N.C....

Owens Corning replaced its 25year-old corporate logo with one featuring only the name of the cgmpany ... Goodyear Roofing Systems Div. is joining Insulation Systems Inc., Dallas, Tx., for distribution of roofing systems and irccessory products in that state

Housing starts jumped lOVo in Aug. (latest figs.) to an annual rate of 1,237,000 ... Single family home construction climbed 8.5%; apartments with five or more units leaped 2l.3Vo ... permits declined l.6Vo ... "Our view is that this is primarily in response to interest rate cuts in July," said Leonard Mills, Federal National Mortgage Association.

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