NEWS ERIEFS

Ernst will open a store in Grand Junction, Co. HomeBase signed a lease for a Long Beach, Ca., location that will replace a l0-yearold Fountain Valley, Ca., store, selected a Clovis, Ca., site and chose LPA Inc.,Irvine, Ca., to design a prototype store for expansion in the West and Midwest

Bruce Bauer Lumber and Supply, Los Altos, Ca., opened a new $80,000 window showroom Corning Lumber Co., Orland, Ca., celebrated the opening of a new location ... Parr Lumber Ca, Gresham, Or., plans to expand its storage area

Express Building Supply Inc., Moses Lake, Wa., will move into a new 31,000 sq. ft. location across town and change its name to Express Build America Center in Seil. ... Copeland Lumber Yards Inc., Bishop, Ca., will relocate to a new, expanded location ...

Duvalt Lumber and Home Center opened a complete lumber yard adjacent to its Duvall, Wa., operation Anawalt Lumber, West Los Angeles, Ca., added a gardencenter...

Home Depot will expand into Vancouver, 8.C., Canada, next year (see story p. 33) ... the chain, which is opening a Seattle, Wa., store later this month, bought an Aurora Village (Seattle) site; continued to seek approval of proposed sites in Oceanside, C3., Federal Way and Issaquah, Wa., and leased property to expand the garden section and parking at the T[cson. Az.. store ...

Lumberme n's Building Cen te rs, Olympia, Wa., purchased Ace Home Center, Tangent, Or., and Van Petten Lumber and Hardware Co., Walla Walla, Wa., changing the names of both ... Lumber City, Valencia, Ca., is now California Do-it Center (see story p. 49) ...

Ganahl Lumber Co,'s Corona, Ca., locafion received a Chamber of Commerce Corporate Beautification Award HomeBase accepted a Hundreds of Partners Award for its leadership in electronic data interchange

Anniversaries: BMD, Inc., Galt, Ca., 50th; Motorola FM 2-way portable radio technology, 50th; Bowman Lumber Sales. Cloverdale, Ca., 1?th; States Dealer Supply, Eugene, Or., 16th...

D av idson Ind,usvies, Mapleton, Or., closed permanently June 30, citing lack of timber supply Southern Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., voluntarily liquidated after 59 years in business ... Sierra Madre Lumber Sales, Mira Loma, C&.n filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ... Stone Container has closed its Eagar, Az., mill "indefinitely" ... Pactfic Mill & Lumber, Los Angeles, Ca., has temporarily closed...

Sumwood, Inc. has suspended its Long Beach, Ca., inventory facility; sales, especially direct imports, continue at Palos Verdes Peninsula (Los Angeles), Ca., Hq. ... Galleher Hardwood Co., Santa Fe Springs, Ca., received a Perma' Grain Products, Inc. 1992 Distributor of the Year Award ...

Eisenbrand, Inc., Exotic Hardwoods, /nc., Torrance, Ca., has no relationship with Exotic Woods, Inc. of the same city that voluntarily liquidated recently ...

Sterling Pacific Building Materials, Costa Mesa, Ca., a subsidiary af Building Material Distributors, Inc. (BMD), Galt,

Ca., has changed its name to BMD and will no longer sell to builders and contractors, only retailers Industrial Wood Prodacls, Kalispell, Mt., is now Timherline Lumber Inc. ...

M ic higan - C aliforni a Lumber Co., Camino, Ca., and Sierra Pacific Industries have agreed in principle to a timberland swap with Timber Products Co., whose principals own part of Mich-Cal, acquiring Sierca Pacific land in No. Ca., a;nd Sierra Pacific acquiring land and Mich-Cal's Camino sawmill ...

San Antonio PoIe Construction Co., Btea, Ca., built 4 new bldgs. for the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, Ca., and a large, new structure *t Main Lumber Co.. Bieber. Ca.

Universal Far West Co. has established central purchasing at Woodburn, Or. Jay Gregg and Judy Wilson are new buyers under Pat Webster, v.p. Ralph Cardwell, part of the group, continues at the Huntington Beach, Ca., oflices

GAF Building Materials Corp. 's Fontana, C&., roofing plant's multi'million dollar expansion will be completed in Sept. ... Hardware Wholesclers, Inc. introduced paint, home decor and custom picture framing center programs designed by Watt Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Huttig Sash & Daor Co., Chesterfield, Mo., acqufuel Door Distributors (formerly Rondel's Inc.), Spokane, Wa., and its Wa., Or., Id. and Mt. retailer distribu* tion business ... Bowers installed a new state-of-the-art electrical box producing system at its South Gate, Ca., plant .."

Housing stcrls increased 7.47o in May (latest figs.) to an annual rate of 1,244,W0... single family home starts were up 2.5Vo; multis of 5 or more units dropped 3.37o, those with less than 5 increased 22.2Vo ... permits rose 1.2Vo "." starts in the West were down 3.3Vo.."

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