NEWS BRIEFS

Retailers

Agate Beach Supply, Newport, Or., recently completed an extensive interior remodel, adding signage and expanding inventory; Mark Harner is a new co-owner, joining Don Pettis and founder Jack Rowland

Kolob Lumber Co., Springville, Ut., has closed ...

Downham Lumber, Battleground, Wa., has moved into a new 2,040-sq. ft. sales and office building with 5,000-sq. ft. covered storage area: the 43-year-old former office will be used for storase and tool repair ...

Lumbermen's of Washington, Inc., has acquired 30-year-old, 13,000-sq. ft. Regnier Lumber, Bend, Or., as its 37th location

Marson & Marson Lumber Co., Leavenworth, Wa., has applied to build a 7,200-sq. ft. roof truss manufacturing plant in nearby Peshastin, Wa.

P.E. Dolan Lumber Co., Concord, Ca., has opened its first Dolan's Windows & Doors Desisn Center in Burtingame, Ca.. and-is looking for a site in San Rafael, Ca., to open a second next year; others will be opened by 2001 in Sonoma, Pacific Grove and San Jose, Ca.

Eagle Hardware & Garden will add new stores this year in Wenatchee, 'Wa., and Louisville and Pueblo, Co., and next year in Maui, Hi.; Lakewood, Co., and Tacoma and North Seattle, Wa.

Home Depot is nearing completion of a new location in San Rafael, Ca.; has applied to level a vacated Kmart to make way for a new 106,000-sq. ft. facility in San Jose, Ca.; received the go-ahead to build a largel 120,000-sq. ft. store in Monrovia, Ca.; has killed plans for a Granada Hills, Ca., unit and is reconsidering a Woodland Hills, Ca., site due to homeowner opposition, and is being sued by a developer who claims the chain backed out of an $8 million buyout of property in Calabasas, Ca.,, after she spent $500,000 redesigning and re-engineering a shopping center to accommodate them

Home Depor is testing a 1.000page catalog in the Chicago, Il., area to see if it merits national distribution; if successful, the catalog could ease long store lines by increasing sales by telephone and fax and boost the chain's fledgling delivery service...

Diumond G Home Center, Grants, N.M., is adding 7,000 sq. ft. to its store for kitchen, bath and electrical items

Anniversaries: Tualatin Vrlley Builders Supply, Lake Oswego, Or., 50th Diamond G Home Center, Grants, N.M.,20th

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Kinzua Re sourc e s, Heppner, Or., is negotiating to buy Louisiana-Pacific's Pilot Rock, Or., facility all sales for Kinzua are now handled by McKenzie RiverTrading Co., Eugene, Or, ...

U.,t. Mitting Services has opened a new custom milling facility in Wilmington, Ca., offering a wide range of milling services, a full line of domestic hardwood lumber, small lot sales, and its own fleet of trucks ...

Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or., has purchased all outstanding stock af Levesque Plywood Ltd., which operates a particleboard, plywood and melamine overlay complex in Hearst, Ontario, Canada, and a hardwood plywood plant in St. Casimir, Quebec

Snow Peak Forest Products, Inc. has moved to new offices in Coeurd'Alene, Id...

Ore gon-Canadian Fo rest Products of California, Orange, Ca., added an office in Arroyo Grande, Ca., manned by Jeff Lynn

Champion Truss, Inc. has moved to new quarters in Albuquerque, N.M.

Merritt Brothers Lumber Co., Athol, Id., is acquiring Crown Pacific's Albeni Falls, Id., mill to relocate its Tri-Pro Cedar Products operation, Spokane. Wa., to the site

La ui s iana - P a c ific has restarted its Chilco and Sandpoint, Id., sawmills

Cameron Ashley Building Prodacts, Inc., Dallas, Tx., has completed its purchase of Mile High Roofing & Exterior Supply, hc., Denver, Co. ...

Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id., has purchased the 48-year-old, former Wiergate Lumber Co. sawmill and lumber processing facility in Wiergate, Tx.; Shaun Hoyt, mgr., and David Shaddock, sales ...

Triad Systems Corp., Livermore, Ca., has agreed to acquire Computer System Dynamics, Inc. (CSD), Denver, Co., adding 600+ customers and nearly 1,000 automated locations to Triad's 4,300+ customers with approximately 5,000 locations; CSD is expected to remain headquartered in Denver as a subsidiary of Triad ...

LouveRail Enterprises Inc. has moved to a corporate office. warehouse and manufacturing facility in Tucson, Az.

APA-The Engineered Wood Associatiorz, Tacorna, Wa., has installed new testing equipment to evaluate the behavior of woodpanel framed shear walls under simulated earthquake forces

P e nofin- P e rfu rma nc e C oat i n g s Inc., Ukiah, Ca., received a safety award for the 3rd straight year from the National Paint & Coatings Association

Owens Corning has purchased British-owned Linpac Insulation, with plants in England and Spain,

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