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Knoll Lumber & Hardware is closing its Kenmore, Wa., store after 55 years and relocating as a pro yard to Monroe, Wa. ...

Dixon Hardware & Lumber Co. got planning commission approval to rebuild their business that burned to the ground in June on a new site in north Dixon, Ca. ...

Learned Lumber is nearing completion of its new building in Hermosa Beach, Ca.

Lumbermen's will open its newly consolidated Cannon Beach, Or., yard March 30, closing the former Cannon Beech Itrnber two days later and returning the site to prior owner Ken Clark ...

San Lorenzo Innber Co., Santa Cruz, Ca., is remodeling its yard buildings ...

Lowe\ has acquired a 3l-acre site in Albuquerque for its first N.M. location and hopes for a mid-200| opening of its 1.25 million-sq. ft., $78 million western regional DC now under construction on 100 acrcs in Perris, Ca. ...

Home Depot opens stores this month in Surprise, Az.; Mira Mesa (San Diego), Ca.; Carson City, Nv., and southwest Colorado Springs, Littleton and Westminster, Co. ...

Home Depot signed a $1.5 million lease on a site in Ontario, Ca.; agreed !o buy 10 acres in Yuma, Az., for a 129,000-sq. ft. home center, and got the go-ahead to remodel and expand the garden center at its Tustin Ranch, Ca., store ... 12 current and former workers at Depot's Southfield, Mi., storc filed a racial discrimination suit seeking $1.12 billion

Building Materials Halding

Corp.,looking to finance acquisitions and repay notes, has obtained a five-year, $125 million revolving credit facility and a $100 million term loan

White Cap Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, Ca., has postponed a shareholder meeting to vote on a proposed acquisition by private merchant bank l*onard Green & Partners LP, Los Angeles, Ca.; White Cap also reduced a planned loan and junk bond sale l6vo to $185 million

Nickerson Lumber has added three storage buildings at its Van Nuys, Ca., facility, site of the old Chondler Lwnber Co.

Hines Honicuhure /nc., Irvine, Ca., has acquired grower Willow Creek Greenhouses Inc,, Chino Valley, A2....

Ace Hardware Corp.b new marketing program trains associates to be "professional space consultants" for products such as shelves and bins

Truserv's Top Lumber Mernbers for 1999 include chains Anderson Lumber, Ogden, Ut.; BMC West, Boise, Id., and Lumbe rmen's Euilding Centers, Olympia, Wa.

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Jones Forest Products is a new Hayward, Ca., wholesaler of imported and domestic lumber founded by Bill Jones ...

Weyerhaeuser Co., Foderal Way, Wa., completed its purchase of TJ Intemational, Boise,Id.

American Timber plans to permanently shutter its-72-year-old sawmill in Olney, Mt., this summer due to declining federal timber sales ...

Braided Accents, Coeur d'Alene, Id., has doubled the size of its Santa Ana, Ca., production facility...

Plum Cteek Timber, Seattle, Wa., sold 91,000 acres of Idaho timberland to Crown Pacific Partners, Ponland, Or., for $73 million...

Caffall Bros. Forest Products, Wilsonville, Or., is now handling sales of clear production for Snn Studs, Roseburg, Or.

CertainTeed Corp. b Chowchilla, Ca., insulation manufacturing facility has earned ISO 9002 certification ...

Inland Timber Co., Grand Terrace, Ca., and J.M. Thomas Forest Products Co., Ogden, Ut., are now stocking Willamette Industries' full line of engineered wood products

Anniversaries: Weverhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa., l00th Fo ste r l;tmbe r Yards, Yallejo, Ca,, 80th Honsador Lutnber Corp., Kapolei, Hi., 65th ... Att-Coist Forest Products, Chino (since 1978), Ca., l5th

Housing starts in Dec. (latest figs.) climbed 7?o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.712 million single family starts rose \Vo to 1.402 million, multifamily was at a rate of 280,000 with 5+ units and 30,000 for 24 units : an estimated 1.663 million units were started in 1999, 3Vo above 1998's 1,616,900...

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