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Orchard Supply Herdware opened a new store March I I in Huntington Beach, Ca., its only addition this quarter

Builders FirstSource has acquired the truss plant operations of Madera Component Systems, Fountain, Co. ...

Knotl Lumber & Hardware, after moving to Monroe, Wa., sold its Kenmore, Wo., property to the thrift store operator/Catholic charity Society of St. Vincent for $3.65 million, $150,000less than & corrpeting offer ...

Burgess Lumber, Santa Rosa, Ca., added a new storage facility to accommodate a larger inventory of redwood products and other building materials...

White Cap Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, Ca.,has been acquired for $240 million and taken private by merchant bank Leonard Creen & Partners LP, Los Angeles, Ca., which then acquired a $125 million line of credit and issued $75 million in notes

Home Depot agreed to buy a 10.S-acre driving range in west Eugene, Or., to build a I17,438-sq. ft. store with 18,779-sq. ft. garden center; submitted plans for a 108,000-sq. ft. store with 24,000sq. ft. outdoor center in Redlands, Ca.; hopes to begin construction early next year in Redmond, Wa., for a late 2@l/early 2002 opening; wants to build in Yucaipa, Ca.; is considering a site in west Olympia, Wa., and is still battling to relocate its Whittier, Ca., store across La MimdaBlvd.

Home Depot switched stores to 24-hour-a-day operations in north Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Vfay, Tukwila, Bellevue, Olympia, Kent, Puyallup, Everett and Silverdale, Wa., joining the other three Puget Sound stores (Bothell, Tacoma and south Seattle), which have been open around the clock since November the chain plans to increase iis store count in the Seattle area from 14 to 25-30 by 2003

Lowe's Cos. has acquired ll.6 acres on the grounds of the Multnomah Greyhound Park, Portland, Or., to co-anchor with Fred Meyer the 50-acre Wood Village Town Center to open next March

Lowe's expects to open in California this spring in Redlands; in the 3rd quarter in Rancho Cucamonga; in the 4th quarter in Victorville; in late 20AUearly 2001 in Upland and San Clemente, and next year in Riverside, Ca. ...

Home Depot opens new stores this month in Ogden and West Jordan, Ut.; Twin Falls, Id.; Flagstaff, Az., and Corona, Ca. the company agreed to buy three Sam's Clnb sites in Argentina, with plans to have eight locations in the country by the end of next year ... voters in Glendora, Ca., approved Measure D, which clears the way for a new Depot

DeCou Lumber Co., Atascadero, Ca., following an extensive renovation, was named Business of the Year by the local Chamber of Commerce ...

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PrimeSource Building Products has a new 40,000-sg. ft.-DC in Salt Lake City, Ut., to distribute fastener products and related items

Forest Plywood, La Mirada, Ca., has acquired Baker Hardwoa.d,San Diego, C6., and will retain the Baker narne ...

Britt Lumber is constructing a I l0'x200' modern remanufacturing plant on 5 acres adjacent to its Arcata, Ca., sawmill; completion is expected by mid-summer

P&M Cedar Products agreed to sell its domestic wood products operations to sister companies CalCedar Properties, Inc., and Calrnills, Inc., both subsidiaries of California Cedar Products Co.

Universal Forest Products completed its move into a new So. Ca. DC in Riverside, replacing smaller facilities in Huntington Beach and Corona ...

Carlson Bower Group, Coeur d'Alene, Id., is a new architectural products sales firm founded by Paul Carlson and Clint Bower: their initial line, Pacific Accents preassembled glass block windows, is made in Bend, Or.

MDI Building Supply, Albuquerque, N.M., has launched Hyb rid P refabrication Ope ration to produce precut framing packages with computerized design; Christopher Head, v.p. of project administration ioc.net.

NxTrend Technalo gias, Colorado Springs, Co., has agreed to be acquired by BuildNet, Research Triangle Paik, N.C.; NxTrend will keep its name and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary ...

Housing starts in Feb. (latest figs.) rose l.3Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.78 million single family starts slipped nearly 47o to l.3l million, multifamily jumped 19.5% to a rate of 472,A00 units permits fell$Vo to a 1.63 million rate ... in the West, starts climbed l.3%o, while permits dropped 8A% ...

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