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Downs Lumber & Supply Co., Hinesville, Ga., anticipated closing its doors Jan. 1 after42 years

Carolina Holdings has acquired Wilson Brothers' yards in Fredericksburg, Alexandria, Manassas and Warrenton, Va.

Morrison's Home Center, Nashville, Ga., expanded its 7,000-sq. ft. showroom to 25,000 sq. ft., significantly increasing its L&G and flooring depts. ...

Lyons Lumber, Frankfort, Ky., opened Lyons Do it Best Hardware, a 10,000-sq. ft. store in the Brighton Park section of Frankfort last month; Larry Taylor, mgr. ...

Ace Hardware. Fairburn, Ga., has opened in the newly remodeled former Fitzgerald Home Center, which closed early last year; Jimmy Reeves, mgr. ...

P iedmont Builders Supply, Winder. Ga., is liquidating ...

Levy's Lumber & Building Supp/y, Dupont, Ky., was set to be auctioned off late last month, the final remaining asset of Jacob Levy & Brothers Inc., which was founded in 1901, grew to four Louisville area locations, and filed to liquidate under Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1999

Wheeler's, Rome, Ga., recently opened a new DC in Jasper, Ga. ...

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Scotty's Hardware, Tifton, Ga., closed Dec.22

Home Depot opens new home centers this month in Midwest City, Ok., and Granbury, Tx.

Lowe's will open 123 stores in 2A02 that arc I7-l8Vo larger than its current projects and 130 stores in 2003 will be l6-l7Vo bigger

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Orgill, Memphis, Tn., is building a new 75,000-sq. ft. corporate headquarters in nearby Germantownn Tn., anticipating completion by November ...

Georgia Flush Door Sales, Austell, Ga., has been acquired by Jeld-Wen ...

Canadian National Corp. opened a $5 million, 60,000-sq. ft. DC/reload in Memphis, Tn.

Plum Creek Timber Co. plans to use timberlands near Atlanta, Ga., and Daytona Beach, Fl., for commercial and/or residential development ...

Cemplank's fiber cement operations, including leased manufacturing plants in Summerville, S.C., and Blandon, Pa., have been acquired by James Hardie Building Products; Cemplank will operate as a separate division of Hardie ...

Atrium Cos., Inc., Dallas, Tx., is leasing back its 400,000-sq. ft. manufacturing/distribution facility in Welcome, N.C., and 165,000-sq. ft. plant/DC in Murrysville, Pa., after selling them to investment banker W.P. Carey & Co. LLC ... two years ago, Atrium struck similar deals with Carey for its facilities in Wylie, Dallas and two in Greenville, Tx.

C.M.C., SA, last month acquired Costa Rican Forest Corp., which includes a pine and cypress mill and a dry kiln; the company plans to focus on the fence market in the Gulf States

Do it Best Corp. has selected A2i to implement a content management and catalog publishing initiative...

C raftMaster Manufacturing, a stand-alone company formed after the recent acquisition of Masonite Corp.by Premdor, will now exclusively manufacture CraftMaster door designs and MiraTEC treated exterior composite trim

Rinker Materials Corp., West Palm Beach, Fl., agreed to pay Cemex $42 million for five hard rock quarries in Ky. and Mo. ...

APA-The Engineered Wood Association has closed its Hamburg, Germany, office ...

Custom Windows Systems, Ocala. R.. became the first Florida window manufacturer to receive the Energy Star from the Efficient Windows Collaborative ...

Willamette Industries is providing all the glulam beams and posts for Bob Vila's dotCOM dream HOME, to be built in Nevada; the building of the house will be accessible via the Web Willamette also is donating building materials for a new home in Dallas, Tx., to be built on the tv show Michael Holigan's Your New House...

Anniversaries: South Eastern Timber Corp., Coral Springs, Fl., 30th ... Morrison's Home Center, Nashville, Ga., 30th ...

Housing starts in Nov. (latest figures) surged 9Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.645 million ... single-family starts jumped 3Vo to a rate af 1.26I million; multi-family with 5+ units was at a 346,000 pace ... permits increased 5Vo to a | .564 million rate.