80-Year-Old Lumberyard Finally Expands

This month Hills Flat Lumber Co., Grass Valley, Ca., will open a second location-six decades after first selecting nearby Colfax as the site.

Jeff Pardini said his grandfather, Edward Julian Pardini, wanted to expand to Colfax, but World War II derailed his plans.

Pardini runs the business with his father, Edward Jr., brothers Kennan and Jason, and sister and brother-inlaw Deborah and Dave Caddy.

By doubling its annual revenue over the past 3-l/2 years, Hills Flat Lumber is now able to invest about $3 million in the new 38,000-sq. ft. building on 8 acres.

At 12,000 sq. ft., the retail showroom will be triple the size of the Grass Valley store's retail space. It also will have a full-line nursery, an equipment-rental division, and a drivethrough lumberyard with covered storage for upper-grade lumber and a roller rack system supplied by AutoStak Systems.

City manager Bob Perrault expects Hill Flat Lumber to become the largest retailer in Colfax, which has a population of about 8,000-about 257o less than Grass Valley.

Established in 1921, Hills Flat Lumber has been increasing revenue at least 2OVo a year for the last five years. "People really still want service," Pardini explains.

Hawaii Firm Stalks Eucalyptus

Tradewinds LLC has received approval from Hawaii state officials to harvest 11,000 acres of eucalyptus trees in the Waiakea forest for plywood. The company had signed a l5-year lease agreement with Prudential Timber to harvest eucalyptus across 30,000 acres. Tradewinds will build and operate a mill, plant and cogeneration power facility. It will produce plywood by incorporating the veneer from the local trees and imported pine, laying it up as plywood at its plant, and shipping out the finished product from Hilo and Kawaihae.

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