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Franklin Building Supply held a grand opening at its new lumberyard in Pocatello,Id.; Bryce Luker, mgr....

Doors and Tffindows has broken ground on a 59$00-sq. ft. showroom at its facility in Wildomar, Ca.

Logan Covina Hardware, Covina, Ca., is looking for a buyer for the 75.year-old store, which has been on the market for the past 10 months; owner Don Matheson plans to retire

Home Depot this month opens new home centers in Show Low. Az.; Highlands Ranch and NE Colorado Springs, Co.; American Fork, Ut.; Lihue (Kauai), Hi., and a relocation in Clackamas, Or. ...

Home Depot has proposed a 149,000-sq. ft. home center in Vista, Ca., and agreed to acquire roofing installer Installed Products USA and subsidiary Installed Products of Caffirnia ...

Lowe's Cos. opened a new home center Aug.29 in Merced, Ca. (Terry Stewart, store mgr.; Keith Waldo, sales mgr.) ... the chain recognized Schlage as its Supplier of the Year

Lowe's is nearing completion of a 135,000-sq. ft. store in Clovis, N.M.; hopes to complete construction by December of a 116,000-sq. ft. store with 34,000-sq. ft. garden center in Nampa, Id., and received planning and zoning commission approval to replace an old Wal. Mart in Idaho Falls, Id., and to build a 109,846-sq. ft. store with 23,815-sq. ft. garden center in Roseburg, Ot ,:.

Wickes Lumber, Vernon Hills, ll., has been delisted from Nasdaq ... Bradco Supply has increased its ownership in Wickes to l6.63Vo ...

Habitat for Humanity opened, n:,,:: Restore donated building *ur"ti*1s : outlet Sept.6 in Helena, Mt.

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Georgia-Pacific Corp. has hired GoWman, Sachs & Co. to help sell its building products disribution division ...

Cen',tra,Iia Sawrnills Corp. received an $800,000 loan from the state Community Economic Revitalization Board, allowing two forest product industry veterans to build a $39 million sawmill in Ceatralia, Wa.; it will employ about 100 people

J.D. Lumber Co., Priest River, Id., recently added four doubletrack dry kilns to handle its entire

The Campbell Group, Portland, 0r., agreed t0 pay $685 million for Fletcher Chatlenge Foresls' entire forest estate, although a New Zealand-led consortium, Kiwi Forests Group, followed with an unsolicited $750 million bid

Cal$ornia Cedar Products is winding down operation$ at its McCloud, Ca., facility, marking the closure of the last sawmill in Siskiyou County ...

Louisiana- Pacrlc sold roughly 55,000 acres of timberland near Honey Island, Tx., for $37 million to Honey Island Properties ...

Professional Paint, Lone Tree, Co., has acquired the assets of stain manufacturer Duckback Products,Chico, Ca.

Boise, Boiseri, Id., is considering the sale of its Yakima, Wa., operations, including a sawmill, plywood plant and related ope{?ti$ in Yakima, a lumberyaid in Goldeudale, and 200,000 acres of timberland in central Washington received approval for its proposcd $1.15 Hllion acquisition of office supply chanOfficeMax,...

C,,il ,,tgtti|r{lng Pr , Scal Beach, Ca., has begun manufacturing operations at its 1l-month-old, 99,000-sq. ft. DC in Stockton, Ca., serving the Pacific Northwest

Boise Building Solutions has retained Shift Communications to publicize the national roll-out of its new HomePlate siding

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