NEWS BRIEFS

Home Depot purchased l0 acres in San Bernardino, Ca., for a new store, leased 100,000 sq. ft. for a unit in a San Mateo, Ca., shopping center, negotiated for space in a Union City, Ca., mall and signed a $14.6 million lease for a 96,000 sq. ft. store due to open in Santa Clara, Ca., next Wlntgf

After the unexpected withdrawf of the Chase Bank funding. for the Levin Group's purchase oT lh9 O'Mglley Cos., the pioneer Arizona firm granted an extension to June 18 to the San Francisco investment firm to raise the reported $15 million purchase price. meanwhile O'Malley is free to seek new buyers and/or restructure the Phoenix-based company signed a lease for a new warehouse location in San Jose, Ca.. ..

_ Meeks Lumber Yard, Rocklin, Ca., is expanding its 4,000 sq. ft. showroom to 15,000 sq. ft.... Terry Lumber Co. is remodeling its new Bakersfield, Ca., yard, i former llickes Lumber .'.-.

Knoll Lumber, Bothell, Wa., opened a Marysville, Wa., store in the former Carpenter's Lumber building with plans to build a 20,000 sq. ft. facility in the next twoyears...

Ernst Home & Nursery opened a replacement store in Westwood Village Shopping Center, Seattle, Wa. Alpine Lumber, Sandpoint, Id.. opened a second store in Post Falls, ld. Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca., plans to add hardwood centers to the Garden Grove and Corona yards thisyear...

Anderson Lumber Co., Ogden, Ut., celebrated its centennial opening a building material center and truss plant in North Las Vegas, Nv.. HomeClub, Inc.

Eagle Hardware, David Herrensperger's new project, has broken ground for its first unit in Spokane, Wa. . Hubbard's Ace Home Center opened a 17.000 so. ft. store in Med-ford, Or. .'. Atpiie Lumber, Alpine, Ca.. expanded its nursery to 9,ff[ sq. ft.

Highway 99 Home Center. a one-stop shopping center for the home, opens in Sacramento in mid-July .. Ace Building Center, Florence, Or., has been sold to Chris Harline by Mark Balfour. .. Lumbermen's Buildins Centers, Lincoln City, Or., rel ceived an award of merit and two Silver Hammer awards for consumer advertising from the Notional Advertising Bureau and the Television Bureau el' Adver- tising...

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,,: Daniille ib,^, improrement Center, Danville, Ca., has closed . Modesto Lumber Co. plans to close its Ceres. Ca., yard sometime this year, selling their loca- tion to the city. Diamond Lumber, merged its Petaluma, Ca., location with its Sebastopol. Ca., store whose property is being considered by the city for redevelopment lWo fewer houses, condos and apartments were built in first quarter 1990 than in the same period a year ago, F. W. Dodge reports

Anniversaries: Irrigators Lumber Co., Caldwell, Id., 70th; Yucca Vallev Hardware & Lumber, Yucca Valley, Ca., I lth.

Lumberlok. Hayward, Ca., has been acquired by ineco, Colliers Way, W.V. . . Cooperlools was named Vendor of the Year bv AceHardware Co. . . . Pacilic Coast Buitding Products Inc., 5acramento, Ca., purchased Interstate Brick, WestJordan, Ut.

. Calilbrnia Hardware, Los Angeles, Ca., named Stanley Hardware its yendor of the year.

Caseywoods Corp. rec,eived ap- proval to op€n a wholesale lumber and building materials supply yard in GrassValley. Ca. . .. BMC West, Beaverton, Or., has leased 35,000 sq. ft. of warehouse and distribution space in Vancouver, W&., for expan- ston...

Ensworth Forest Products, Arcata, Ca., has added a custom milling service ... Product Sales Co.. Orange, Ca., had an ofl'ice break-in with losses of approximately $1.500.

A Plywood Panels facility has been acquired by Do *Able Prodacts. both are in City of Industry, Ca. . Pope & Talbot, Portland, Or., acquired the Powder River Timbe,, sawmill. Osase. Wy. Empire Forest Prodicts', Spokane, Wa., has closed . .

_ Approximately 3,500 loggers tiom Wa., Or., Id., Mt. and No. Ca. gathered in Kelso, Wa., May I2to protest a government proposalto curtailtimber harvests to preserve old growth forests as habitats for the "endangered" northern spotted owl; some 550 trucks formed aline five miles long.

The ballot initiative (the Global Warming, Clear Cut Reduction, Wildlife Protection and Reforestation Act of 1990) backed by the California timber industry turned in enough signaLures to qualify for the Nov. ballot

Housing srdl,rs forApril (latest figs.) fell 5.80/o to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.25 million, the lowest in 7 years. . single family units were down 7 .50/o; m u ltifam ily slarts remained unchanged at the March level of 3l 1,000 building permits slipped 8.70/o