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Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. closed its 37-year-old Bellevue, Wa., yard; the company hopes to use proceeds from the sale of the lacre site to open three or four new stores ...

Anawalt Lumber plans to replace its 7O-year-old, 10,000-sq. ft. West Los Angeles, Ca., location with a.16,500-sq. ft. unit on the sanr€ srte ...

A.C. Houston Lumber Co. held a Jan. 30 grand opening at its new 18.28-acre contractor yard, warehouse and truss plant in North Las Vegas, Nv. ...

HomeBase will close its Lynnwood, Wa., and Palm Desert, Ca., stores and was rejected in its request for zoning changes to allow a store in Elk Grove, Ca. ...

White Cap Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, Ca., agreed to buy construction materials distributors Sierra Supply ^Inc., Reno, Nv., and ,/EF Supply Inc., Portland, Or.

Payless Cashways will slash the worldorce at its Kansas City, Mo., Hq. by 25Vo and is consolidating its operating regions from six to four, closing Dallas, Tx., and Indianapolis regional offices

Home Depot plans a 125,000sq. ft. store on 15 acres in Gilroy, Ca., by spring 1999; will begin construction in early suilrmer on a 115,000-sq. ft. unitin Meridian, Id., and got a six-month extension on its exclusive agreement with Inglewood, Ca., to find a site in the city Cerritos, Ca., agreed to remodel the shopping center housing the local Horne Depot

Home Depot will relocate its Western regional Hq. in May from Fullerton to a 158,000-sq. ft. building in Orange, Ca. a San Juan Capistrano, Ca., mobile home park is fighting a proposed Depot next door, while retailers on Oahu, Hi., have banded together as the Alliance for Responsible Growth on Oahu to keep out a 3rd Depot, in Pearl City ... the Simi Valley, Ca., city council has initiated eminent domain proceedings to seize property from two owners who have yet to work out an agreement with the development of a $40 million retail center to house a Home Depot andaWalMan...

GIenn Kincaid Construction Co., Washougal, Wa., will build a replacement lumber yard and office in Camas, Wa.

H echinger/Home Quarters and Builders Square stores will be renamed after the strongest performing store in each market ...

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Big Green Forest Products, Eugene, Or., was formed by Doug Little, ex-MFP of Oregon, and Tim Larson, ex-Pan Pacific, wholesaling green and dry dimension

Weye rhaeuse r Co. permanently closed its Coos Bay, Or., export sawmill and is scaling back logging operations ...itwill close its packaging plant in Alameda, Ca., and has extended the warranty for its Sturdi-Wood and Structurwood OSB panels to 25 years ...

Westwood Forest Products, Everett, Wa., is handling wood purchasing and sales for new B.C. remanufactu rer l-abyrinth Lwnb e r Ltd....

CertainTeed Corp. will begin construction this spring on a fiber cement siding plant in White River, Or. ...

TreeSource, /nc. has temprarily curtailed production until March at five mills (Sedro-Woolley Lumber, Sedro Woolley, Wa.; Philomath Forest Products, Philomath, Or.; Trask River Lumber, Tillamook, Or; Spanaway Lumber, Tacoma, Wa.; Central Point Lumber, Central Point, Or.) ...

N eiman Sawmills, Inc., Hulett, Wy., has acquired Continental Lumber Co., Inc., Hill City, S.D., renaming it Rushmore Forest Products,Inc.

Crown Pacific Partners, L.P., Portland, Or., has completed its acquisition of Alliance Wholesale Lumben Inc., Phoenix, Az. ... Crown Pacific has sold the Z,MG acreArlecho Creek Forestin Whatcom County, Wa., to the Nature Conservancy and the Lummi Indian Nation ...

Mesa Insulation/nc., a subsidiary of Johns Manville Corp., Denver, Co., has acquired a calcium silicate and fireproof board plant in Fruita, Co., from the Pabco Division of Fibreboard Corp., an Owens Corning subsidiary; the sale includes the Super Firetemp board business and ihe Pabco brand name

APA-The Engineered Wood Association, Seattle, Wa., has clo_sed.its Rocky Mountain Region office in Denver, Co. ...

Hofmann & Associates is a new wood products consulting service -Uur_._O in W_estminster, Co., begun by Howard Hofmann

Unity Forest Products, Yuba City, Ca., celebrated its lOth anniversary by taking office staff and spouses by train from Sacram-ento to Renb for an evening of dining, dancing and gaming -

Johns Manville Corp., Denver, Co., has completed its purchase of flexible roofing membrane producer Seal-Dry, Little Rock, Ar. ...

Ingersoll-Rand agreed to purchase door hardware technology ftom Master Lock for its Schlage Loclc business ...

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association has launched a recovery fund to help restore its Washington, D.C., Hq. destroyed recently by fire (see Dec., p. 18)

Anniversaries: International Paper,l00th Oregon Logging Conference, Eugene, Or., 60th Capinl Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., 50th Unity Forest Products, YubaCity, Ca., l0th ...

Housing starts in Dec. (latest figs.) slipped l% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.519 million ... single-family construction fell 6?o to 1.092 million units, while multi-family reached 427,O0O units ... permits remained flat at 1.4759 million.