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HomeBase may convert all its locations to House 2 Home stores if a five-store test of the home furnishings format is successful; stores with incompatible demographics would be shuttered

A.C. Houston Lumber Co.. Las Vegas, Nv., has added its 10th location. a lumberyard and truss plant on 6.5 acres in Sacramento, Ca.; Kriss Heisinger, mgr. ...

B rowne lamber, Friday Harbor, Wa., has acquired Friday Harbor Building Supply and will consolidate operations there after adding a new building ...

Heights Home Center & Nursery, Spokane, Wa., has closed after three years in a 50,000-sq. ft. former Ernst location

Lanoga Corp., Redmond, Wa., will no longer buy endangered wood products "to the extent possible" by 2AAZ for its 190 locations...

E.R.I.C. Building Supply, Flagstaff, Az., has put the 49-year-old discount business up for sale ...

BMC West has opened a satellite yard managed by Larry Case in Cedar Mill, Or., on property leased from Cedar Mill Lumber & Hardware; Cedar Millwill now concentrate on landscaping materials, specialty woods and equipment rentals from a portion of the backlot...

Ace Hardware Corp. signed on its first franchisees in Singapore and Hong Kong

Do it Best Corp, is partnering with ServiceMagic.com to provide customers with a resource for qualified local contractors and installers

Home Depot opens new stores this month in Bear Vallev (Denver), Co.; Missoula, Mti; North Tacoma, Wa.; Carson and Lake Forest, Ca.; the chain has settled its suit against the city of Sherwood, Or., for failing to rule on its application within the required 120 days, is fighting for permit approval in Beaverton, Or., and also is facing homeowner opposition in Ventura, Ca. ...

Home Depot is scouting locations in Yakima, Wa.; reportedly has selected a site near Pine Ridge Mall for a planned Pocatello, Id., location; received city council approval to build in east Mesa, Az., and has broken ground on tour Expo Design Centers in California, including Laguna Niguel and Anaheim ...

Lowe's Cos. will pay $8.5 million for 16.8 acres in Hillsboro, Or.; is about to begin construction in San Clemente, Ca.; received the go-ahead to build in Antioch, Ca.; is seeking approval to build superstores in Orchards (Vancouver), Wa,, and West Covina, Ca., and wants to lease a l4-acre site in Costa Mesa, Ca. ...

Anniversaries: DeNault's True Value Hardware, San Clemente, Ca.,45th ... Makita (JSA, Inc.,La Mirada, Ca.,40th ...

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Louisiana-Pacific is rebuilding its Saratoga, Wy., mill following a $4.8 million fire March 20 ...

Swanson Timber Co., Willits, Ca., has added a branch in Marysville, Ca., manned by Chris Swanson; his father, Alan, continues in Willits

Cameron Ashley Building Products has closed its Spokane and Tacomao Wa., branches-...

California Lumber Inspection Service has relocated its San Jose office to Lodi. Ca. ...

The Flecto Co. has closed its Oakland, Ca., operation and moved to corp. Hq. in Hudson, N.C.; Flecto is a division of RPM

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CertainTeed Corp. has added a 125,000-sq. ft. Portland, Or., office and service center to distribute insulation in the Northwest, primarily Or., Wa. and western Id.; Cindy Johnson, service center mgr.'..

S olatube International Inc., Vista, Ca., has acquired the assets of SunStar tubular skylight maker SunLight Systems, Phoenix, Az.; Sunlight president Dennis Grubb has joined Solatube as director of business development

Columbia Ventures Corp. agreed to sell its California extrnsion business to British manufacturer Caradon PL.C for $120 million in cash: Caradon also is divesting its Friedland unit and its plumbing business inclading Mira Showers, Rada Controls and Twyford Bathrooft;ts

EFI Electronics, Salt Lake City, Ut., agreed to be acquired by Square D

James Hardie plans to buy the assets of Western Gypsum, a gypsum mining operation in Utah

Pacific Lumber Resources, Inc., Lake Oswego, Or.. was named #10 on Entrepreneur Magazine's Juoe 2000 list of the "Hot 100" fastest growingnew businesses in America...

KLC International added a Lake Oswego, Or., DC for its high-end radiata pine

Mendocino Forest Products, ZLC, Riverside, Ca., is now distributing Typar Housewrap in So. Ca....

New Web sites: National Fenestration Rating Council, www.nfrc.org ... World Buyer's Guide for Hardware & Building M ate ria ls, www.buildingmaterialsguide.com TheJobsite.com, Inc., Laguna Hills, Ca., www.thejobsite.com...

Housing starts in April (latest figs.) climbed 3Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.663 million single family starts remained flat at a 1.329 million rate, multifamily was at a rate of 307,000 for 5+ units and 27,A00 for 2-4 units.