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Home Quarters Warehouse wlll have double opening ceremonies for two new stores in Charlotte. N.C., in February .. Hechinger Co. will open stores in Harrisonburg and Centreville, Va., next year Home Depot has signed a lease for 100,000 sq. ft. in The Home Depot Plaza, Jacksonville, Fl....

Choo Choo Supply Co. will open its third Do-it center and seventh store, in Hinesville, Ga., this month .. Holmes Lumber and Home Center, Jacksonville, Fl., has refurbished, becoming a Sentry Lumber's Store of Tomorrow...

Lowe's, which will add 175,000 sq. ft. to its distribution warehouse in Winston-Salem, N.C., has obtained a future store site in Franklin, Tn.: stores in Baton Rouge, La., and Little Rock. Ar., have been closed

Westlake Hardware has installed new interior and exterior signs at its Edmond, Ok., store Pace Hcme Center, Milton, Fl., has added a 2,500 sq. ft. lumber shed . Tindell's Inc., Knoxville, Tn., has opened Iindell's Gallery of Windows in Knoxville, Rick Becker, mgr.

Elray Kocke Service Inc., Donaldsonville , La., has remodeled and remerchandised, changing its name to Elray Kocke Service Pro Home Center.

True Value Hardware, Fort Pierce, Fl., has been closed with the retirement of owners Bruce and Ruth Thompson...

Causeway Lumber, Boca Raton, Fl.. has been in business 27 years inventory of Homeowners Outlet Mall Exchange, which is liquidating under Chapter 7, was auctioned last mo. at its Naples, Fl., site.

Ply Mart has opened a 37,000 sq. ft., l0 acre facility in the McDonough/Stockbridge, Ga., area . Jintmy I4/hittingron Lumber Co., Memphis, Tn., will open a Cordova, Tn., location this month.

Alamo Lumber Co., New Braunfels, Tx., plans to build a portable concrete batch plant . . Yard King is opening a store in Miami Lakes, F1....

Builder's Supply Co. is constructing a new facility in Petersburg, Va. . Sv'i.ft Supply. Atmore, Al., has doubled the size of its showroom and refurbished the entire lacility Pary, Co. has opened a lumber distribution yard in Elizabethton, Tn., George Hodge in charge . Home Depot has a new store in Douglasville,Ga....

W. P. Stephens Lumber Co., Marietta, Ga., is building a 9,000 sq. ft. retail center as part of a $l million renovation program. Toney Lumber Co., Louisburg, N.C., is adding new equipment in a $100,000 streamlining of operations . . . Reed Lumber & Wood Yard, Roanoke, Va., lost a sawmill in a recent $175.000 fire...

John Nichols, A.T. & N. Lumber Service, York, Al., has purchased Thomas & Miller Lumber Co., Linden, Al. ... Cox Wood heserving Co., Orangeburg, S. C., is sponsoring a car in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series for 1988 . .

Forest Products, 1nc., Roswell, Ga., has acquired Jones Building Materials, Canton, Oh.. . Continental Wood Trading, Inc., has been formed by Harold K. Osterheider in Houston. Tx.

Building Products Digest

Beasle.t' & Sorls, Nashville, Tn.. founded in 1857, has been named one of the city"s oldest businesses bl' the Nashville Busi,?ess Journal . Ou'sle,y Lumber Co.. Milton. Fl.. is 55 years old.

Pro.fitMaster Computer .S1'stenrs, Inc.. has relocated its corporate Hq. in Austin. Tx. GS Roqfins Products Co. has moved its South Central Region Hq. to Dallas, Tx.. from Houston. .

Flora is a new ceramic and porcelain floor tile distributor in Boca Raton, Fl. AJBoyd Industries, Inc., has opened a 30,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant in Houston, Tx. . . Belwood, Ackerman, Ms., has filed for protection under Chapter 1l bankruptcy

Duo-Fast Corp. earned an award for .{chievement in Product Safetl, from the National Safett'Council

Porrer Paint Co,. Louisville. Ky., has agreed to be acquired by Courtaulds PLC of the United Kingdom the National Association of the Remodeling Industrl' has established a new local association in Wichita Falls. Tx.

USG Corp. has filed a lawsuit against Wagner & Brow4 a Texas partnership, to stoP their attempted takeover of the company...

Disston Co., Greensboro, N.C., has agreed to be sold to James Neill Holdings PLC, Sheffield, England, the largest hand tool producer in the U.K.. Nortek has withdrawn its hostile bid for Kincaid Furnilure, Hudson, N.C.

Housing starts slid 8.2% in Oct. (latest figs.) to a seasonallY adjusted annual rate of l.5l million units, the lowest in almost 4l/2 years. single family starts fell 7ok . .. multis dropped l60/o .. . permits were off 3.40/o .. in the South starts fell 110/o .. actual starts for the first 10 months of '87 were down l2olo from'88...