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J.C. Baldridge Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N.M., has agreed to be acquired by Stock Building Supply, Raleigh, N.C.

Parc Lumber, Hillsboro, Or., opened a yard in Klamath Falls, Or., its 23rd location

Dixon Hardware & Lumber, Dixon, Ca., has been sold by Bryan Bock to Tony Tryba ...

Desert Lumber, North Las Vegas, Nv., got the go-ahead to build a 5-acre lumberyard in Pahrump, Nv.

Victor Lumber Co., Spokane, wa., lost a 1,200-sq. ft. building in a June 3 electrical fire ...

H & E Do It Yourself Center closed its Redlands. Ca.. store June 30, reducing the chain to 5 locations ...

Spaeth Lumber & Home Center, Corvallis, Or., is undergoing a $50,000 remodel, includng 6,000+ sq. ft. of covered lumber storage and a new paint department

Lloyd Lumber has moved its commodity distribution yard from a downtown site to a newly constructed four-building, 35,000-sq. ft. complex in north Nampa, Id. ...

Central Home Supply, Santa Cruz, Ca., may be forced to relocate if part of its current leased property is taken over by the city's

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Weed Building Supply, Weed, Ca., has doubled its retail floor space to make room for more consumer products ...

Carlson Hardware. Redlands, Ca.. has closed...

Builders FirstSource. Dallas, Tx., raised $196 million in an Initial Public Offering of stock

Building Materials Holding Corp. subsidiary BMC Construction agreed to buy a 5IVo stake in concrete home foundation builder BBP Cos., Glendale, Az. ...

84 Lumber will open a 34,450sq. ft. store with three storage buildings totalling 30,000 sq. ft. in Meridian,Id., in September ...

Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, Ca., opened two new stores May 2l in the Los Angeles, Ca., area; their larger size-51,460 sq. ft. in Citrus Heights and 63,301 sq. ft. store in El Cerrito-provides room to carry major appliances

Lowe's Cos. opened new stores July 29 in East Palmdale, Ca., and Jily 26 in El Centro and South Antioch, Ca.

Lowe's submittted plans to tear down a 125,000-sq. ft. Wal-Mart to build a 138,000-sq. ft. store in Porterville, Ca.; applied to construct a 175,000-sq. ft. unit in Westlake Village, Ca., and expects to open new locations in 4th quarter 2005 in Fountain and North Westminster, Co., and Longview, Wa.

Home Depot opened new stores June 23 in Seaside (Monterey), Ca. (David Alanis, mgr.), and May 26 in Brighton, Co.

Home Depot anticipates rain delays will push to late October the unveiling of a 106,507-sq. ft. store with 34,646-sq. ft. garden center in Lincoln, Ca., and submitted plans for a 102,083-sq. ft. store with 27,988-sq. ft. outdoor garden center on 18.8 acres in Warrenton, Or., to open by fall 2006 ...

Home Depot got the go-ahead to demolish a Kmart in Newark, Ca., to build a new 106,500-sq. ft. store; submitted an environmental review of its proposal to raze a Kmart to allow for a new store in Crescent City, Ca., and received approval to build a 102,513-sq. ft. store with 34,643-sq. ft. garden center in Ceres, Ca., for a late fall 2005learly 2006 completion

Grainger has relocated its Camarillo, Ca., branch to a new 2,500-sq. ft. showroom in Oxnard, Ca.; Jeff Burns, branch mgr.

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Anfinson Lumber Sales, Fontana, Ca., has opened a branch office in Laveen (Phoenix), Az.; Ray MacDonald, account mgr.

Centralia Sawmill Co., Centralia, Wa., is building a sawmill to open in the spring with an annual capacity of 180 million bd. ft. ...

Hampton Lumber Sales has added engineered wood Products to the inventory at its Modesto, Ca., facility; sales will be handled out of the Portland, Or., office by Wynn Vu and Chris Kilgore

44 Lumber, Encampment, WY., agreed to lease and eventually sell its shuttered sawmill to the Soderberg family, who hope to restart the facility this month with up to 20 employees

Housing starts in May (latest figures) rose slightly to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.009 million ... single family starts

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