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Potter's Ace Hardware Home Centers, Jamestown, Tn., has opened a new 10,000-sq. ft. Ace Home Owners Hardware in Algood, Tn.

American Hardware Supply reopened April 23 at a new location in Chester. Md., after 24 vearc on Kent Island

Cash & Carry Building Supply, Birmingham, Al., has learned that citv ofFrcials want to build a Social Selurity Administration payment center partly on its property

Scotty's closed its Venice, Fl., location last month after 35 years; store mgr. Peggy Cusimano has been transferred to the Sarasota, Fl., store as assistant mgr. ...

Scotty's also closed its Lakeland, Fl., location last month, with plans to redevelop and lease out the 39,000-sq. ft. building

84 Lumber Co. on April 30 opened a 27,0A0 sq. ft. store with 18,000-sq. ft. building Material Center in Milford, De. (mgr. Mark Trego, co-mgr. JeffWelch), and on Apt'.l29 unveiled a 38,000-sq. ft. store with 10,500-sq. ft. building material center in Franklin, Tn. (mgr. Elbert Helton, co-mgr. Chris Pruett), and a 35,000-sq. ft. unit with 12,500-sq. ft. building material center in Huntsville, A1. (mgr. Jim Hougas, co-mgrs. David Black and B.J. Jolley) ...

McCoy's Buitding Suppty Centers held a grand reopening May 8 at its remodeled store in Waco, Tx.

Home Depot this month opens new home centers in Wichita Falls, Roanoke, Bridgepoint (Corpus Christi), Georgetown and Skillman (Dallas), Tx., and a Landscape Supply store in Skillman new home centers opened last month in

Harrisonburg, Va.o and Biscayne (N. Miami), Fl.

Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., has moved the management team of its Georgia Lighting subsidiary to its Expo Design Center division; as part of the shift, World Imparts, the manufacturing and distribution arm of Georgia Lighting, will now be managed by Your "other" Warehouse

Lowe's Cos. opened new stores May 1 in Lawton, Ok. (Tim Carna-han, mgr.); April l8 in Inverness (S. Birmingham), Al. (Rick Turner, mgr.), and April 17 in Camp Creek (Eastpoint), Ga. (Frank Faulkner, mgr.) ...

Lowe's has postponed buying a 19-acre site in Corpus Christi, Tx., until August to determine how much cleanup will be needed for the former landfill the chain is considering a ban that would pre* vent people under 2l from buying products that could be used as inhalants...

Lumber Liquidators, Colonial Heights, Va., was recently named one of the state's 50 fastest grcwing companies by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce lf, nor:sll:rs/tlrurrtrurrls

Louie's River Ridge Ace Hardware,River Ridge, Tn., was recognized for its participation in the local parish's Adopt a Parkway program...

Dixie Plywood Co., Savannah, Ga., has opened a new warehouse in Charlotte. N.C. ...

U.S. Plastic Lumber, Boca Raton, Fl., has sold its cornerboard business to lllinais Tool Works for $8.2 million...

Internatianal Paper's wood products divison, Savannah, Ga., has decided against reopening its

22-y ear- old, Tuskalu s a Lumb e r MiIl, Moundville, Al., which closed in January

Louisiana- Pacific Corp. has sold 48,000 acres of timberland in western Louisiana to Roy O. Martin Lumber Co., Alexandria, La., for $32.5 million and agreed to sell 43,500 acres in Southeast Texas to an undisclosed buyer for $30.5 million, anticipating a late October close ...

Brite Manufacturing has acquired Ontario, Canada, plants Coventry Forest Products and South River Forest Products

DW Distibution, De S0!o, Tx., recently named Memphis Folding Stairs, Memphis, Tn., as its 2002 Supplier of the year ...

Nu-Waod Co, is now offering its urethane millwork in 13 differentcolors...

Anniversaries: McCoyt s Building Supply Centers, San Marcos, Tx., 80th ... Woodware Systems, Memphis, Tn.,20th...

Housing stnrts in April (latest figures) dropped 6.8%,.ta a seasonally adjusted annual rate of l:?48 million ... single family starts declined 3% to 1.356 million; multifamily (5 + units) were at a pace of 244rOO0 ... bui'lding permits fose l.T%o ra an annual rate of 1.708 million.

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