NEWS BRilEFS

Retailers

Orchard Supply Hardware has signed a letter of intent to coanchor tbe Z2-acre Coliseum Shoreline Center now under construction next to the Oakland, Ca., Coliseum OSH is considering a site in the Los Alamitos/Seal Beach, Ca., area ...

Anderson Lumber, Ogden, Ut., has acquired A.C. Houiton Lumber's Jetome, Id., truss plant

Arden Lumber Co. has relocated frorn Sacramento, Ca., to a newly acquired 7.5 acres with 40,000 sq. ft. building at rhe Yuba County Airport Industrial Park in Marysville, Ca.; Arden also now manufactures trusses ...

Grossman's Inc. is considering moving Hq. from Canton, Ma., to Sacramento, Ca., base of its more profitable Contractors Warehouse division ...

Parr Lumber Co.. Wankers Corner (West Linn), Or., has expanded its showroom, storage space and outside sales dept.

Home Depot opens new stores this month in Los Anseles and Downey, Ca.; opened-units last month in Highland Ranch, Co., and two in Denver, Co.; will open a 105,700-sq. ft. store in South Everett, Wa., in mid-January, store mgr. Gary Brainard; will begin construction in April on a 130,000-sq. ft. unit on'33 acres in Spokane, Wa.; is receiving stiff homeowner opposition to building in Van Nuys, Ca., and has retraci ed its application to build a 106,000-sq. ft. store in Cupertino, Ca. ... two people were treated after becoming nauseous from a gas leak inside the parking structure elevator at Depot's Colma, Ca.. store...

Buena Park Lumber, Buena Park, Ca., has dismantled its decorative hardware displays and kitchen cabinet showroom

Hardware Wholesalers Inc. is installing a mobile communication and information system in its delivery tmck fleet

Anniversaries: Spokane HooHoo Club, Spokane, Wa., 75th ...

Wi c ke nburg Lumb e r, Wickenburg, Az., 50th T&H Lumber. Millbrae, Ca., 50th ... Cascade Empire. Portland, Or., 20th

Wholesalers & Manufacturers

Sauder Industries, Seattle, Wa., will relocate its Lumber Supply ftrc. subsidiary from its site neir the Port of Seattle to 80,000-sq. ft. of new warehouse space in Renton, Wa.

Highland Enterprises, a Grangeville, Id., logging company, received a jury judgment of $150,000 in compensatory damages and $999,999 in punitive damages after suing 12 Earth First! protesters ...

J.D. Lumber Co., Inc. is rebuilding its Priest River, Id., mill that was almost totallv destroyed by a Nov. 3 fire; loss- was in ihe millions of dollars

Euco Waod Products Division, Stanwood, Wa.. has been acquired from Et+tco Enterprises, Inc., Des Moines, Ia., by Design House, Inc., Germantown, Wi.

Wescor Forest Products. Tacoma, Wa., has added a Ridgefield, Wa., glulam plant

Gridcore Systems International has expanded production capacity by O mittion si. tt. per year^at its

Long Beach, Ca., molded fiber panel plant .,. Weyerhaeuser Co. and kird Plastics are now distributing Gridcore products

Weyerhaeuser's Buildins

Materials Distribution Business ii now the primary North American distributor for Homasote Building Products

Linwood Forest Products. Sacramento, Ca., is now a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Linda (Weber) Steele ...

North Pacific Lumber Co.'s Global Services Group has acquired consumer electronics & appliance distributor The Moore Co., Portland, Or.

Celotex Corp.'s Fremont, Ca., roofing plant was named the division's plant of the year; the Los Angeles, Ca., facility received the 1996 Quality Award

Superior Fireplace Co., Fullerton, Ca., willjointly develop hearth products tiitt-t lOtut ASA of Norway

Lumber Tag Specialties Inc. now serves customers on three continents, in five countries and 2l states...

New Web sites: National Store Fixtures, www.NationalStore Fixtures.com National P art icl e b oard As s o c iotion and PB-M DF Institute, www.pbmdf. com...

National Association of Home Builders projects 1.459 million starts in 1996, the highest level of the decade, and a 7Vo decline to I .352 million next year ...

Housing starts in Oct. (latest figs.) fell 5.17a to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.336 milIio.n single family starrs slipped 4.6Vo, while multi-family dwellings with 5+ units dropped 12.5Vo ... building permits dropped2JVo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.361 million ... starts fell in every region except the West, which posted a 6.5Vo gain with mortgage rates again falling, some _analysts predict a recovery in home construction.