NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Dixieline Lumber plans to open its llth retail location this spring in a 40,000-sq. ft. former Builders Emporium in Poway, Ca., and will hold a grand opening for the new Door & Window Center at its Kearny Mesa (San Diego), Ca., store Feb. 22 ...

Escondido Lumber Ca., Escondido, Ca., has filed for Chapter I I bankruptcy protection to reorganrze...

Anderson Lumber is relocating its Twin Falls, Id., yard to a larger 40,000-sq. ft. store with 50,000sq. ft. express yard on 12 acres to open March 15 with 70 employees, up from 15; Sherman Olmstead, gen. mgr. ... Anderson will open a new 30,000-sq. ft. retail store on four acres in Pocatello, Id., May 1 to replace the facility destroyed by an Aug. fire ; Jeff Randall, mgr. ...

Anawalt Lumber, Montrose, Ca., lost huge sections of the roof from its A-frame lumber storage barn Dec. 31 as 80-100 mph winds created "the biggest skylights you've ever seen" ...

Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. has closed its 35-year-old Albany, Or., yard, moving its inventory and accounts to the Corvallis, Or., location and leaving the 90-yearold chain with 10 stores in 0regon and Washington

Eagle Hardware & Garden is purchasing 10 acres in Wenatchee, Wa., for a 150,000-sq. ft. store ...

HomeBase, building a 109,505sq. ft. store with 24,000-sq. ft. nursery in Vacaville, Ca., for a summer opening, won city council approval to install a 55-ft. high, 325-sq. ft. sign along the freeway but must change its "gray kitten" color ...

HPM Buitding Centers, Hilo, Hi., is converting its three stores to Hardware Wholesalers Inc.'s Level 1 Do-it Best format

Home Depot proposed new stores in Spokane, Wa., and Calabasas, Ca., and acquired a l0-acre business park in Bellevue, Wa., for $11 million for a home center

Servistar is expanding its Springfield, Or., Coast to Coast DC by 200,000 sq. ft. to about 506,000 sq. ft. for $6.5 million and is consolidating Coast to Coast's Denver. Co.. main offices into Servistar's Butler, Pa., Hq. ...

Anniversary: Economy Lumber Co., Campbell, Ca., 60th ...

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Landmark Forest Producrs, San Bernardino, Ca., has added its 6th location, a Central Califomia DC in Merced; Bob Halbert, inside sales; Rick Hovick continues as territory sales mgr.

Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., Industry, Ca., has closed its San Bernardino, Ca., yard porarily closed its Chilco., Id., mill and Sandpoint, Id., finishing plant ... the company also donated $27,500 to University of California, Berkeley's Center for Assessment and Monitoring of Forest and Environmental Resources

Cameron Ashley Buitding Products, Inc., Dallas, Tx., has agreed to purchase Premdor Corp.'s Ogden, Ut., DC ...

U S Timber Co., Boise, Id., has purchased the former Added Value wood products manufacturing facility in Baker, Or., and will begin manufacturing studs and cutstock this month ...

Georgia-Pacific Corp. will close its Oakland and San Jose, Ca., warehouses and consolidate its Northern California business in a224,000-sq. ft. facility to be built by mid-year on 37 acres in Fremont; although G-P is building 13 such superwarehouses, it will scale back its capital expenditure program to $900+ million this year after spending about $1.3 billion to update and expand mills and plants in 1995

Hampton Lumber Sales Co., Portland, Or., has formed a Southern Sales Division, Vance, A1.; Cliff Jones, gen. sales mgt

McCormick Piling& Lumber, St. Helens, Or., plans to move by spring from the Scappoose Sand & Gravel pit to 11.5 acres at the log yard of the Multnomah Industrial Park, recently leased from the Port of St. Helens, and may be interested in increasing their lease to 15 acres in the future

Ernst Home Crrrrrrhas opened a superstore in The Dalles, Or.

McGuire Lumber Co. has been acquired byDoorPreFinish, Yakima, Wa., and renamed McGuire Custom Finish...

McLendon Hardware has remodeled its Renton, Sumner and under construction L-P tem-

Inuisiana-Pacific's bid to have agricultural land adjacent to its Ukiah, Ca., sawmill complex rezoned for industrial use was rejected by Mendocino County supervisors as "too vague;" officials want more details before allowing 26 acres of former orchards to become a controversial chipping operation, mega-log storage area for the chipping center and a $12 million sawmill already Woodinville,

Industrial Wire Products Corp., Pomona, Ca., has opened collated nail manufacturer Golden State Nail Co. at the site of its Arrow Division, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca.; Russ LoGuidice, former gen. mgr. of recently closed Stanley Fastening Systems, Rancho Cucamonga, serves as Golden State pres.

Housing starts for Nov. (latest figs.) rose 5.7Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.42 million, the highest level since July ... single-family starts remained flat although multi-family jumped 32Va ... building permits climbed 3.2Vo toa 1.428 million annual rate starts fell 5.4Vo in the West.