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Hardware Hawaii True Value plans to open its third location on 60,000 sq. ft. in Mapunapuna, Hi.o near a recently shuttered MidPac Lumber...

Orchard Supply Hardware added store #77 in Folsom, Ca. ...

Loa Builders Supply, Loa. Ut., was named a Pro Hardware Retailer of the Year

Lowe's Cos. has begun construction in Chandler and Fhoenix, Az., and on 12 acres in Tigard. Or.: is about to break ground in Gilbert, Az., and on 13 acres in West Valley City, Ut., for early 2001 openings, and is seeking approval to build in Mill Creek, Wa.

Home Depot is putting the finishing touches on a new store in San Pedro, Ca.; is seeking approval to build on 16 acres in Glendale, Az.; agreed, to purchase 15.4 acres in Longview, Wa.; will build on 13 acres in Yakima, Wa.: is building in Troutdale, Or.; had its plans for a Ventura, Ca., home center denied by the planning commrsslon ...

Home Depot agreed to buy 42 acres in Irvine, Ca., to build an Expo Design Center and possibly other retail or office space; will reopen its original Newbury Park, Ca., home center as an Expo; is paying $6.23 million for 12 acres to add a second store in Escondido, Ca.; is scouting locations in the Medford, Or., area, and is consid- eringan alternate site in Springfield, Or., and a lot in Pasadena. Ca.

Home Depot topped by $3 million Lowe's $6 million bid for 13 acres in San Juan Capistrano, Ca., despite resident oppdsition to big boxes ... firefighters evacuated the Woodland Hills. Ca., Depot after a chemical fire broke out amid the swimming pool supplies

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Mid-Pacific Trading Co., Rancho Cordova, Ca., moved its Etiwanda, Ca., facility to Pedley (Riverside), Ca., where it makes cedar/redwood nurserv boxes and supplies local pallet mikers

Gateway Forest Products, Ward Cove, Ak., is now producing lumber at the Ketchikan Sawmill acquired last year from Ketchikan Pulp Co; the first shipment went to Madison Lumber & Hardware, Ketchikan ...

Crown Pacific Partners closed indefinitely its Coeur d'Alene, Id., sawmill

Honolulu Wood Treating has added 3 acres to its 6-acre Kopolei facility to handle increased treated wood volumes: also added: 6 more yard personnel and a 2nd shift .,.

White Sands Forest Products is permanently closing its Alamogordo, N.M., mill this month

Newquist & Bergstrom has moved across town into its own building on 3lst St. in Newport Beach, Ca. ...

Loaisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Slocan Forest Products to construct and operate an OSB plant in Fort St. John, B.C. ... L-P and Casella Waste Systems. Inc. are merging their ceilulose insulation businesses into 50/50 joint venture U.S. GreenFiber LLC

Universal Forest Products entered into a joint venture with The Outdoor Advantage, Snohomish, Wa., to make and market preassembled vinyl fencing for the d-i-y market ...

Smurfit Newsprint Corp.'s Cladwood Siding Division, Oregon city, 0r., had its plants certified by Scientific Certification Systems ...

Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., put a 30-day moratorium on clearcutting in Cala-veras County, while it reevaluates its harvesting strategy in the Sierra Nevada mountains ...

Johns Manville's Roofing Systems Group, Denveq Co., has purchased a facility in Sulphur Springs, Tx., from HON Industries, Inc. for a regional warehouse, DC and, when fully operational, polyisocyanurate foam manufacturing plant; projected opening: first quarter 2001

Pavestone Califontia is the new name for Hokenson's Building Block Co-, Sacramento, Ca., which is now producing Anchor Wall Systems concrete retaining walls; an additional plant is under construction in Winters, Ca.

SteelWorl<s Corp., Denver, Co., acquired Eastern Aluminum Sheet & Extrusion Richmond, Va. ...

Hines Horticulture Inc., Irvine, Ca., added a new color bedding plant unit headed by Thomas L. Fortner ...

HomeWarehouse.com, San Mateo. Ca.. shut down its e-commerce site ...

BuilderSupplyN et. com is now serving 16 more markets, including Portland, Or.; Salt Lake City, Ut.; Boulder and Denvet Co., and Northem California ...

APA reports the National Conference on Weights & Measures took no definitive action at its recent annual meeting to resolve a long-standing issue over nominal vs. actual panel dimension labeling

Anniversaries: Miller Wholesale Lumber, Tempe, Az.,7th

Housing starts in June (latest figs.) fell 3Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.554 million single family starts dropped 3Vo to a 1.214 million rate, multifamily reached a rate of 305,000 for 5+ units and 35,000 for 2-4 units ... permits held steady af 1.511 million units.