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Oregon's Gerretsen Gets New Digs

The last time Gerretsen Building Supply Co., Roseburg, Or., opened a new retail store, Lyndon Johnson was president and gasoline was about 25Q a gallon.

Over 35 years later, it's an election year, gasoline is approaching $2 a gallon, and the 77-year-old firm is moving again, this time to a larger location near the Roseburg airport.

"We had outgrown the old store," said co-owner Donda Gerretsen-King, who noted that a third of the store's inventory couldn't be displayed in the old location. Gerretsen's also owns a store in Sutherin, Or.

The company bought the 3-acre airport site and its 26,000-sq. ft. building in 1998, and immediately began a year-long remodel that included expanding the 30-yearold building to include the administrative offices.

The store and lumber warehouses take up less total room than before, according to Gerretsen-King, allowing space for over 5.000 new inventorv items.

"This store is set up more for the do-it-yourselfer than the old one," she said, adding that about 407o of her customers are d-i-yers.

The old location now houses storage and the firm's trucking division, although plans call for a discount lumber shop to open there in the future.

The company's other owners are Eric and Bill Gerretsen and Doug Carl.