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B&B Hardware, Los Angeles, Ca., recently remodeled its 5lyear-old store

McDaniel Do it Center Shohomish, Wa., and Hardware Store Do it Center, Maple Valley, Wa., were recognized by Do it Best Corp. for highest warehouse purchases among its single store operators...

TruServ Corp. received CIO Magazine's CIO-100 award for its Internet Custom Catalog and signed a $350 million underwritten lending commitment from Bank of America for borrowings against the co-op's accounts receivable and inventory

Lowe's Cos. opened a new store early this month in N. Phoenix, Az. (James Henry store mgr.)

Lowe's will build a 135,000-sq. ft. store in Stockton, Ca.; earned a special-use permit to build a I36,253-sq. ft. store and 24,O20sq. ft. garden center in Vista, Ca., and received city council permission to erect a second store sign in San Clemente, Ca.

Home Depot this month opens home centers in Longview, Wa.; Hayward, Redondo Beaph and Yuba City, Cn., and at the E. Portland Mall in Ponland. Or.. as well as Expo Design Centers in Oakland, Westwood and Dublin, Ca.

Home Depot plans a 750,000sq. ft. regional DC on 44 acres in Lacey, Wa., and a 150,000-sq. ft. store with a 20,000-sq. ft. garden center in West Hills, Ca.; wants to lease 10 acres of county land in Aubum, Ca., for a 130,d00-sq. ft. store; has decided not to build on a site in Mission Viejo, Ca., and is partnering with ImproveNet Inc., Redwood City. Ca., to operate an installed sales pilot program at 15 California stores ...

Home Depot received an "F" score in traffic movement from a San Juan Capistrano, Ca., environmental study of a proposed store the chain is continuing to face resident opposition over a proposed site in Agoura Hills, Ca.; opponents have gathered threefourths ofthe signatures needed to force an anti-big box referendum onto the March ballot ...

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Matheus Lumber Co., Woodinville, Wa., opened a sales office in Vancouver, Wa.; Larry Tommerup and Kevin Koranda, sales reps.

South Coast Lumber Co.. Brookings Or., is planning on closing its cutting mill June 2002; the facility will be refitted as a stud mill

YardC onne ct. c om, Seattle, Wa., shut down and is liquidating

U.S- Plastic Lumber Corp. is expected to close its Fontana, Ca., manufacturing facility by the end of the year along with its Chino, Ca.. resin plant ...

Mikron Industries, Kent, Wa., has started production at a new 52,000-sq. ft. plant manufacturing polymer composite window and building products

States Industries has closed its veneer mill in Grand Ronde, Or., and cut 55 jobs in Eugene, Or.

Superior Lumber Co. rebuilt its 8,000-sq. ft. Glendale, Or., offices destroyed by fire Jan.2; an activist group claimed responsibility for the blaze (see Feb., p. 32)

Boise Cascade, Baise,Id., had 480,000 acres of timberland in Washington certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. and finished third in CMP Media's "InformationWeek 500," which recognizes innovative uses of information technology

Commercial Lumber & Pallet Co., Indio, Ca., suffered an Aug. 2l fire that caused $1.75 million in damage; fire officials determined the blaze was accidental ...

Neil Kelly Co., Portland, Or., has formed Kelly Cabinet Co., a new corporation to manufacture, sell and distibute Neil Kellv cabinets; Rick Fields is the new company's president

Medallion Cabinetry opened a 150,000-sq. ft. plant in Independence, Or., replacing its 70,000-sq. ft, Salem, Or., facility

Custom Building Products, Seal Beach, Ca., and Jamo recently opened a 50,000-sq. ft. plant in Miami, Fl., that will manufacture tile and stone products ...

Premdor, after completing its acquisition af Masonite Corp. from International Paper Co., is changing its name to Masonite International Corp. ...

Louisiana-Pacific will begin shipping WeatherBesl composite decking in four new colors in early 2002: the new colors are roughsawn pine, pacific cedar, western redwood and driftwood gray

Honolulu Wood Treating, Ewa Beach, Hi., is now distributing CertainTbed's Weather Board fiber cement siding

Anniversari es: Go lding S ulliv an Lumber Sales, Costa Mesa, Ca., 25th Expo Design Center, San Diego, Ca., 10th

New Web site: Certffied Forest Products Council, Beaverton, Or., www.certifiedwood.org

Housing starts in Sept. (latest figures) rose 2Vo to L574 million ... single family starts climbed l% to 1.268 million; multi-family was at a rate of 270,000 for 5+ units building permits fell 37o to an annual pace of 1.571 million.