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Mead Clark Lurn;ber Co., Santa Rosa, Ca., has acquired 11 acres in Healdsburg, C8., frorn Capital Lumber Co., where it plans to manufacture engineered roof and floor trusses

Grove Lumber, Ontario, Ca., has opened a second yard in Romoland, Ca. ...

Dunn Lumber Co., Seattle, Wa., has acquired Logan Lumber Co.'s Normandy Park, Wa., location

Ashby Lumber has moved its Pleasant Hill, Ca., operation to a new S-acre yard and retail compound in Concord, Ca.

Channel Lumber is looking to open a 182.000-sq, ft. yard in Fairfield, Ca.

Ganahl Lumber Co. is remodeling its Laguna Beach, Ca., yard ,..

Valley Best-Way Building Supp/y, Spokane, Wa., has moved into a new 4,000-sq. ft. retail store and contractor service center a few blocks from the old location

White Cap Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, Ca., has completed the acquisition of Kel-Welco Distributing Inc., with nine prooriented branches in Colorado, Nebraska. Iowa. Missouri and Arkansas

Home Depot this month opens a new home center in Provo, Ut.,

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(a free sevice) and early next month will open a 112,000-square-foot store on 11 acres in Tumwater, Wa.

Home Depot has submitted plans for a second Moreno Valley, Ca., store; agreed to buy 12 acres of land in Kapolei, Hi., to build a 135,000-sq. ft. store by year's end, and purchased the 17.8-acre site of a recently shuttered 180,000-sq. ft. Super',Kitia.rt in Oakland, Ca., for a 2fr44 opgning; l"owe's and WalMart reprtedly were also interestedin the site ...

Home Depot is considering sites in Palm Springs, Ca.; will coanchor an 820,000-sq. ft. shopping center in Mira Loma, Ca., and has selected a site in Ukiah, Ca.

Home Depot has enlisted Paving Stone Corp. to serve as an interlocking pavers installer for 15 stores in Oregon Depot has moved the management team of its Georgia Lighting subsidiary to its Expo Design Center division; as part of the shift, World Imports, the manufacturing and distribution arm of Georgia Lighting, will now be managed by Your "other" Warehouse

Lowe's Cos. opened a new store April 30 in Gilroy, Ca. (Rick Watson, store mgr.)

Lowe's is considering building a second home center in Roseville, Ca.; has begun construction on a 116,000-sq. ft store with 20,000sq. ft garden center in Roseburg, Or., and plans to move into the Nampa, Id., site vacated by Producers Supply Co-op's move to a new Napa facility

Lowe's is contemplating a ban that would prevent people under 21 from buying products that couldbe used as inhalants: Lowe's, Home Depot and Target are being sued by the JFK Center for Ciuil Rig&r, San Pedro, Ca., which alleges that the retailers are violating California law by selling to rninorsw household products that contain toluene, such as paints, resins and cleaners ...

Cathlamet Building Supply Inc., Cathlamet, Wa., is seeking $14,000 from the town, claiming a sidewalk replacement project in front of its store resulted in lost business revenue

Parr Lumber, Woodland, Wa., has been recognized as Business of the Quarter by the local Chamberof Commerce...

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Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Huntington Beach, Ca., has opened a new yard with a l5-acre railspur in downtown San Diego, Ca.; the yard complements Reliable's exisiting Carlsbad, Ca., sales office ...

Ridgewood Forest Products, Wilsonville, Or., has closed; operators Larry and Steve Buelna are now with MiIl Direct Sales

Rio Grande Forest Products Inc. will disassemble and auction off its Espanola, N.M., mill June 24 or June 25 if a buyer cannot be found...

Heppner Hardwoods, Azusa, Ca., has installed an Eco-Gate system in its planing mill and purchased a Weinig moulder ...

Mary's River Lumber Co., Corvallis. Or.. will close its Philomath, Or., sawmill the second week of July to install new machinery...

Louisiana- Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., will permanently shutter its Belgrade, Mt., stud mill after processing its remaining log inventories and shipping the last of its finished lumber ,.. L.P has sold 48,000 acres of timberland in western Louisiana to Roy O. Martin Lumber Co., Alexandria, La., for $32.5 million and agreed to sell 43,500 acres in Southeast Texas to an undisclosed buyer for $30.5 million, anticipating a late October close

Canfor Corp. plans to build the world's largest mill by expanding its Houston, 8.C., facility; annual capacity is expected to increase from 450 ro 600 million bd. ft.

Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., plans to convert some of the property at its Camino, Ca., mill to mixed-use development. ...

Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, Ca., has sold 581 acres in Redway, Ca., for $2.5 million to the California State Parks with assistance from the Save-the-Redwoods League ...

Plum Creek Timber Co., Seattle, Wa.. has sold 1.700 acres in Swan Valley, Mt., to the Trust for Public Land for $8.7 million; the timberland alons Van Lake and the Swan

River will be managed by the Flathead National Forest ...

Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa., has completed the sale of its 104,000-acre Snoqualmie Tree Farm in western Washington to Huncctck Timber Resource Grouo for$185 million...

Shojin Lumber Co., Kailua (Kona), Hi., is seeking a 6-ft. and a 7-ft. hand-carved tiki stolen from its lumber warehouse

USG subsidiary United States Gypsum Co. has opened a 96,000sq. ft. plant in Glendale, Az., to manufacture joint compound and wall texture products

U.S. Plastic Lumber has sold its cornerboard business to lllinois Tbol Works for $8.2 million

Brite Manufacturing has acquired Ontario, Canada, plants Coventry Forest Products and South River Forest Products

Weaver City Forest Products, Weaver City, Or., is now stocking kiln dried western red cedar and has become a member of the Western Red Cedar Association

Nu-Wood Co. is now offering its urethane millwork in 13 colors

New Web site: Metals USA Building Products, www.buildingproductsusa.com

Anniversaries: Higgins Hardwoods, San Francisco, Ca., 120th M.J. Murphy Lumber & Hardware, Carmel Valley, Ca., 99th ... Pacific Coast Building Products, Sacramento, Ca., 50th Seneca Sawmill Co., Eugene, Or., 50th ... M.K. Morse Co., 40th ... Merritt Brothers Lumber Co., Athol. Id.. 35th Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca.,25th ...

Housing starts in April (latest figures) dropped 6.8Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.748 million ... single family starts declined 3Vo to 1.356 million; multi-family (5 + units) were at a pace of 244,000 building permits rose l.2%o to an annual rate of 1.708 million.

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