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ParkerLumber Co., Bremerton and Bothell, Wa., stockholders Rick Barnes and Kyle Kincaid have acquired Builders Supply, Palm Springs, Ca., along with John Thompson, Builders Supply president for the last 12 years; Parker recently bought Custom Millworks, Bainbridge Island (Seattle), Wa.

Swan Lake Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Or., is closing after 77 years in business

Hayward Lumbe r, Monterey, Ca., has acquired County Lumber, with operations in Santa Barbara, Goleta and Buellton, Ca. (see story, p.32)...

Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co., Walla Walla, Wa., has closed its 3O-yearold Corvallis.Or.. store to sell the valuable Z-acre site,reducing the chain to 10 locations ...

Lomita Building Materials, Lomita, Ca.,opened the Natural Stone Yard,Wilmington, Ca.

Lowe's Cas. is wrapping up construction in Palm Springs, Ca.; applied to build in Canoga Park, Ca.;plans a February 2042 opening in Santa Clarita, Ca., and was title sponsor of the recent threeday Long Beach, Ca., Marathon

HomeDepot this month opens new 107,920-sq. ft. stores on Centennial Pkwy. in Las Vegas, Nv., and in N. Oceanside and Stanford Ranch (Roseville), Ca., and a 118,981-sq. ft. home center in Broomfield, Co. ...

Home Depot got the go-ahead to build a 115,000-sq. ft. store with 24,000-sq. ft. garden center on 1l acres in Escondido. Ca.. and to replace its now vacant home center in ThousandOaks,Ca., with an ExpoDesign Center; has acquired asite in lrvine, Ca., for an Expo store; has pegged a l5-acre site in Santa Clarita, Ca., for a home center; is facing resident opposition to its proposedhome center in San Jose, Ca., and was rebuffed in East

Pasadena, Ca., when a competing development project was apProved sixformer and current workers at the Tigard, Or., Depot are suing charging age discrimination afteratwo-monthtest in Las Vegas, Nv., Depot is rolling online sales out to Austin and San Antonio, Tx.

Ace Hardware Corp. plans to open its first store in Japan in mid2001

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ConradForestProducts is the new name of Conrad Wood Preserving Co., Bend, Or., reflecting its expanding focus ...

Oregon Washington Lumber Co.,Portland, Or., plans to build a new industrial park in Sherwood, Or....

Northwe st F ore stry Association has merged with the Independent F orest P roducts As sociation; Frank Gladics, acting president

Miller Shingle Co., Granite Falls, Wa., is shuttering and putting up for sale its EnterPrise Lumber division, including three cedar plants

Louis iana- P ac ific, Portland, Or., is permanently closing its New Waverly, Tx., plywood facility and Bernice. La.. lumber mill due to declining plywood demand and low lumber prices

Rayonier, to better focus on its specialty pulp and timber management divisions, is reevaluating noncore assets. including possibly selling its New Zealand MDFplant

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Lumb e rTradeX, Seattle, Wa., haslauncheda new live, online price guide ...

ThermaProducts Inc. has expanded its Aurora, Co., Plant bY 22,800 sq. ft. ...

Shaper Lighting, Richmond, Ca., has been purchased by Cooper Industries,Inc., Houston, Tx., for approximately $8 million ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. sold its Marshfield, Wi., door division to Chicago investment fitm Wild Point Partners

Price Pfister is shuttering its corporate office in Pacoima, Ca., relocating about 60 employees to parent Black & Decker 's new administrative office in Lake Forest, Ca.

California Forest Products Commission was presented the Golden Bear Award bY the Califurnia Expo & State Fair ...

Custom BuiWing Products, Seal Beach, Ca., was presented with a Good Corporate Citizen Award from the City of Bell Sanitation District

O'Neill Pine Co., Salem, Or., has been certified as a SmartWood operation through the Forest Stewardship Council

SmartWood opened its first resionaloffice outside the U.S., in Inionesia, headed by Asia Pacific coordinator Jeff Hayward ...

DMSi agreed to integrate its software with the exchange Platform of BzildNet, Inc.

Benjamin Obdyke Inc. has retained an investment banking firm to identify other firms or product lines for acquisition

New Web site: Milgard Window s, Tacoma,'Wa., www.milgard. com...

New construction contracts rose 3Vo in Oct., per F.W Dodge

Housing starts in Oct. (latest figs.) remained flat at a seasonallY ad;usteO annual rate of 1.532 milli<in ... single family starts held at a 1.227 million rate;multifamilY inched up to a rate of 266,000 for 5+ units, 39,000 for 2-4 units permits rsse l7o to an annual rate of 1.537 million.

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