NEWS BRIEFS

Re*ailers

,lr. Regrs Ltntber & Hardware, St" Regis, Mt., has been acquired fqon D{E Bnrce by Don and Karen Clovick, who have rerrchandised ry rtofq...

Dixieline Lumber Ca., San Diego, Ca., has signed all 1l stores as Hardware Wholesalers Inc. members...

Bauer -Lurnber Co., Carlsbad, Ca., has clored

Parr Lurnber has ooened vard #12 on 5 acres in Ne'ivberg,br.; Terry 6ert, Tgt ..

Jerry's -Hone Impruvement Cenler opened its 154,753-sq. ft. replacernent store in Eugene, Or.

Aee Hardwcre, Saugus, Ca., has chsd after 10 years due to rising rent and steep competition ...

G"llrrp Lunber & Supply,Albuquerque, N.M., received Ace Hardware's 1996 Retail Partnership Aw.ard as best dealer in their l&state Western region

Berschauer's Ace Hard,ware, Euphrata, Wa., has reopened after remodeling and expanding to 8,000 sq. ft. ...

Coast to Coast, Bend, Or., has closed aftet 23 years; owni:r Jim .Prosser hopes to lease the site ...

Home Depot's store count will Fls 500 with qpenings this month in Phoenix, Aa, md S. Everett, Wa... Depot plans a'4th Las Vegas dnit, a 105,744-sq. ft. unit adjacent to a year-old Payless Cashways; reduced plans from a 121,0@-sq. ft. to e 105,m0-sq. ft. store for a slte it is acquiring in Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles), Ca.; broke ground'on 10 acres in B-ellevue, Wa., for a 105,000-sq. ft. store with 25,0ffi-sq, ft. guden center to open early 1998, and applied to rczone 18 acres in Bellingham,

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OK Ismber IneJAce Hardware, Fairbanks, Ak., received a land lease extension needed to acquire a loan so Richard Kruckenbere can remodel and buy out his paients' share of the business ..

Knutsen Lumber Co.3 cabinet business was acquired from Sam Knutson by Gordon Bolyard, who will operate it as Kitchcn & Batlx Direct,lnc., splitting the Wenatchee, Wa., site with Wenatchee Nail & Constru,ction Supply ...

HorneBase plans a 3rd Las Vegas, Nv., arei store, a 109,505sq. ft. unit with 23,000-sq. ft. garden center in Henderson

Sears Hardware has broken ground on the lst of 5 planned stores in Las Vegas, Nv.

Orchard Suppty Hardware hopes to lease-a vacated Vons building in S. Bakersfield, Ca. ...

Valley Lumber & Buitding Supply, Juneau, Ak., is set to begin building an 8,800-sq. ft. store to replace its 9,300-sq. ft. main building destroyed by fire in Oct.

Anniversaries: North Cascade Building Materials, Everett, Wa., 25th ... Distribution Management Systems, Inc.,Z}th

Whotesalers & Manuf acturers

G e o rg ia - P acifi c's distribution division has laid off about 50 employees in management and support from its Denver, Co., and Atlanta, Ga., regional DCs, and expects hundreds more layoffs due to unrealized sales expectations

Cr-P agreed to sell ln,W acres of No. Ca. timberland, Martell, Ca., sawmill and particleboard plant to Sierra Pacific for $320 million

BMD, Galt, Ca., has opened a Tokyo, Japan, office, serving that market and repping U.S. manufactu:rers; a warehouse is planned for the near funre

Cal-State Forest Products, F*!u a"u, Ca., has filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy...

Cascade Forest Group is now the exclusive sales asent for all 9g-pt: products froi- Advanced Wood Resources ...

Medite Corp. closed its White City, 0r., stud mill; the Medford, Or., MDF plant remains open

The Ministry of Construction of Japan now recognizes all U.S. grading agencies

Hartman & Co. has moved to new offices in Claremont, Ca.

National Pan icleb oard As s oc iation is merging with the Canadian Particleboard Association; the asyet-unnamed group will be headed by NPA exec. Rich Margosian

MacMilIan Bloedel, I*1, closed its Portland, Or., office Dec. 31

Pacific Lumber Ca. submitted a l}Gyear forestry plan to the Depr of Forestry as part of the continuing negotiations concerning the Headwaters Forest; the latest offer by the federal government for the forest is $380 million in cash and assets, including $200 million in federal oil and gas leases

Willameae Industies applied to begin trading its commonllock on the New York Stock Exchange; combined its Western Lumber & Plywood sales staffs at Albany, &., Hq.t plans to add an eight-bin stacker, metriguard machine, and two 120-ft. jet dryers at its Foster plywood plant, Sweet Home, Or., and began production at its new 285,000-sq. ft. Custom Products/ LVL plant in Albany; David Ferris, custom Products mgr. ...

The Springfield Group, Eugene, Or., is working with creditors to avoid filing bankruptcy after curtailing operations at its three Oregon mills; severe cash flow problems are attributed to rebuilding its Springfield mill damaged by fire Aug.22

Housing starts in Nov. (latest figs.) surged 9.2%, higher than in 16 months, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of I .514 million . single family starts rose 7.6Vo, multifamily starts jumped 15.l7o building permits climbed 3.9% ... starts remained flat in the West.

L-P Closing Mexico Plants

Louisiana-Pacific is permanently closing its two facilities in El Sauzal (Ensenada), Mexico, due to "a variety of market conditions and cost considerations."

The lumber remanufacturing operation will close Jan.31, while the brick plant shut down Dec. 31.

WEST MEETS SOUTH in APA-The Engineered Wood Association oresident David Rogoway's handsome 800-sq. ft. deck on his nefi horire at Gig Harbor, near Tacoma, Wa. Southern Forest Products Associalion media director Richard Wallace (right) thanks Rooowav for specifvinq pressure treated 2x6 soJtherir pine' lumbei lrom Temple-lnland Forest Products Corp. instead of a western soecies. heloino expand West Coast markets frjr treatbd sbutFern'pine, the dominant material for outdoor decks from the Rockies to the East Coast.

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