San Marcos Yard Nears End
Tuttle Lumber, San Marcos, Tx., is closing March 14 after 65 years. Owner Don Gilbreath, whose father bought the company in 1979, launched a retirement sale Feb. 5. A sister store in Lockhart, Tx., will remain open.
Cassity Jones Agrees to Purchase Allen Millwork
Cassity Jones Lumber, Longview, Tx., has signed a definitive agreement to purchase assets of wholesaler Allen Millwork, Shreveport, La. Cassity Jones currently operates in six locations in the East Texas and
Dallas area. “We’ve known and respected Allen Millwork for decades, and we are excited to begin servicing contractor customers in the Shreveport/Bossier City area with their team,” said CEO John L. Jones.
Millworker Crushed to Death
OSHA is investigating the Jan. 23 death of a worker at Gilman Building Products, Dudley, Ga. Gus Harden, 24, became trapped and crushed beneath pallets of lumber. Co-workers removed the wood, so paramedics could reach him, but he died at a hospital about an hour later.
DEALER Briefs The Lumberyard is the new name of Brand X Lumber , Chaseburg, Wi., following its sale from Joe Berra and Marvin Lehrke to Chand and April Wehling. SW Collins Co. opened a new store in Lincoln, Me., featuring 18,000 sq. ft. of retail space and a 30,000-sq. ft. drive-thru lumberyard. For the past two years, Collins had been operating in town from the former Haskell Lumber site. Northbrook Ace Hardware & Rental , Northbrook, Il., has closed after 45 years.
South Euclid True Value Hardware , South Euclid, Oh., has
moved to new quarters four times the size of its previous home.
Eastman’s Ace Hardware , Falmouth, Ma., is adding a 3,000-sq. ft. kitchen supply shop. Shep’s Midtown Ace Hardware, Atlanta, Ga., has been opened
by Zach Stafford.
Ace Hardware, Norton, Ma., is opening late this month in a former 9,000-sq. ft. Aubuchon Hardware building (Ed Siegal and Glenn Finkelstein, owners). ABC Supply opened a new branch in Cumberland, Md., and relocated its facilities in Bloomington, In.; E. Peoria, Il.; and Oklahoma City, Ok. Habitat for Humanity relocated its 13-year-old ReStore discount LBM outlet in Freehold, N.J., to a larger facility. Menards is targeting a late summer opening for its new mega-store in Jamestown, N.D. Anniversaries: Huttig Building Products, St. Louis, Mo., 130th … Ward Lumber, Jay, N.Y., 125th … Robey Building Supply, Monroe City, Mo., 110th … Colucci Lumber, Malaga, N.J., 70th … H&H Building Supply , Roselle Park, N.J., 70th … Ashland Lumber , Ashland, Ma., 60th … Stephenson Lumber Co. , Chestertown, N.Y., 30th …
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Building Products Digest
March 2015
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