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Western Slope Building Supply is seeking approval to build a lumberyard in Craig, Co.

Ace Hardware store owner Jim Hellen will open a second, 30,000sq. ft. Ace in Great Falls, Mt., in May...

Hubbard's Ace Hardware, Medford. Or.. closed late last month for a complete, three-month remodel, inside and out ...

Ace Hardware has broken ground on a 17,000-sq. ft. store in Las Vegas, Nv., anchoring the second phase ofthe 2l-acre Southern Highlands Marketplace

Lumbermens, Olympia, Wa., has completed its acquisition of 3unit Arizona Building Supply, Sedona, Az.

Home Depot is seeking approval for its fifth store in San Jose, Ca.-a 114,700-sq. ft. store with 34,768-sq. ft. outdoor garden center on 12 acres; is looking to build in Atwater, Ca.; demolished a former Kmart in Fremont, Ca., to make way for a new store, and applied to build a 132,000-sq. ft. store in Corvallis, Or.

Lowe's Cos. unveils a new 116,000-sq. ft. home center March 17 in Palm Desert. Ca.. and opened a new store Feb. 4 in N. Westminster, Co.

Lowe's plans 4th quarter 2006 openings in Brighton, Co.; S. Phoenix, Az., and NE Bakersfield, Ca.; will open in Prescott, Az., in lst quarter 2OO7, and had its plan to build a I12,000-sq. ft. home and garden center in Sonora, Ca., blocked by a lawsuit to be heard May 1

Home Depot opened new stores Feb. 9 in Daly City, Ca.; Jan.26 in Spanish Springs (Sparks), Nv.; Lake Elsinore, Ca.; Poulsbo, Wa., and Saanich. 8.C.. and Jan. 12 in Boulder. Co.. and Burbank and Riverbank. Ca. (Michael Brakefield, mgr.)...

Heartwood ReSources, a nonprofit subsidiary of Umpqua Community Development Corp., is raising funds to build a new facility at its site in Green, Or.-the former Bargain Lumber yard

BMC West parent Building Materials Holding Corp., San Francisco, Ca., approved a 2-for-l stock split ...

Dunn Lumber, Seattle, Wa., was named Business of the Year by the local Better Business Bureau

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Conrad Forest Products. North Bend, Or., is now a licensed pressure treater of Woodsmart Solutions' BluWood in Oregon and California ...

American Building Supply, Sacramento. Ca.-based window and door wholesaler, is leasing 133,000-sq. ft. at a Denver, Co., industrial park

Pacific Lumber Resources has leased 17,940 sq. ft. of industrial space in Clackamas, Or.

Shasta Cascade, Redding, Ca., installed a 42" Turner twin bandsaw to its existing framing and planing line, to increase custom manufacturing capabilities for its dogearing operations ... the company has incorporated its own trucking group, Shasta Cascade Trucking

Bright Wood Corp. is closing its facility in Bend, Or., and consolidating operations at mills in Redmond and Madras, Or., by early May ...

American Moulding & Millwork Co., which declared Chapter I I bankruptcy last spring, is attempting to sell its 63-acre site in Stockton, Ca., to MCD-West Lane. LLC for $7.85 million ...

C learwater Fore st Industries, [-ewiston. Id.. will cut one-third of the 6O jobs at its Kooskia lumber mill, due to competition from Canada...

Rosboro is auctioning otr 2,457 acres in the Seven Devils area of Coos County, Or.

Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa., has had all 68 of its paper and wood products mills have been certified for responsible wood procurement by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative ... Weyco subsidiary We.verhaue s er Real Estate Co. has agreed to acquire Maracay Homes, a builder based in Phoenix, Az. ...

Power Wood Corp., Surrey, B.C., is installing four Salton steam kilns and a 20,000-sq. ft. storage shed, to be completed in June...

Redi-Therm I nsulation, Salt Lake City, Ut., has been acquired by US GreenFiber, a joint venture of Louisiana-Pacific Corp. and Pacific ot Loutstana-racutc Lo Casella Waste Systems Inc.

Housing starts in lanuary (late$ rtgures) skyrocketed l4.5%o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate

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