Fisher Lumber Back In Business

Fisher Hardware & Lumber, Santa Monica, Ca., has reopened November 7 in even tighter quarters-seven months after previous parent company, Weyerhaeuser, closed the 82-year-old business to get out ofretail sales.

Instead of an I1,000-sq. ft. hardware store and 88,000sq. ft. lumberyard on three acres, president Erik Jorgensborg now has a half-acre site with roughly 5,000 sq. ft. of retail and a 4,000-sq. ft. yard specializing in moulding, finished lumber and decking materials. Eight former employees have also returned.

"We're going to have to find a niche in what we can serve our customers best," Jorgensborg said. "We still have our windows and doors department."

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