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Richards Building Supply Co., Chicago, Il., added its 18th location, Richards Lumber Supply Co. in Kankakee, Il. ...

City Lumber, Jackson, Tn., was decimated by a tornado May 4; no one was injured; accounting and sales personnel are working frorn temporary offices

Meek's held a grand opening June 18 for its new store on 9 acres in Bourbon, Mo.; the yard was acquired from I-44 Lumber in November

Carolina Millwork, Hickory, N.C., has been bought out by the management and renamed CaroIina Millwork and Building Supply of Hickory; the operation continues in the same location ...

The Woodsmith Store, Clive, Ia., has relocated to the former Payless Cashways site

Blaine Hardware, Blaine, Mn., has renovated its exterior, switched from True Value to Ace Hardware affiliation, and added an Arctic Cat showroom for snowmobiles and accessories

National Home Centen Bentonville, Ar., is adding a 40,000-sq. ft. home decor, lighting and furniture showroom to its facility

Manchester True Value Hardw are, Easthampton, Ma., expanded and added a rental section

Westlake Ace Hardware, Liberal, Ks., sustained minor damage from a May 15 tornado that severely harmed nearby businesses

Ace Hardware is seeking a zon* ing change to allow construction of a store in Antioch, Tn.

Home Design Emporium and New Garden Landscaping & Nursery will co-anchor 40-acre

New Garden Village, Greensboro, N.C,, joined by 50 other home improvement-related retailers, including Emerald Millwork, Greensboro Window Co., Outdoor Living Terrace, Nicholson Flooring and Kohler Kitchen & Bath lnwe's Cos. opened a new store June 5 in Conway, S.C. (Jerrie Autr/, store mgr.), and May 23 in Dickson, Tn. (Rodney Stewart, mgr.)...

Home Depot this rnonth opens new home centers in Mishawaka and Marion, In.; Biloxi, Ms.; Poplar Bluff, Mo.; Newton, N.J.; Dunkirk and Glens Falls (Queensbury), N.Y.; Fuquay Varina, N.C.; Hilltown (Souborton), Pa.; College Station and Wylie, Tx.; Hudson and Menomonee Falls, Wi., and a relocation in Chattanooga, Tn. new stores opened last month in Plainwell, Mi.; Fond du Lac, Wi., and Blue Springs, Mo. (Kevin Duncan, store mgr.)

Home Depot acquired the rights to lease the recently closed Super Kmart building in Detroit, Mi., and learned that it does not need a land-use permit before it opens a store this fall in Brattleboro. Vt.

Whit's Lawn Center. Lincoln. Il., has been opened by Daron Whittaker at the former site of an Ace Hardware store

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TruServ is considering forming a new LBM business after terminating its contract with Builder Marts of America, which acquired TruServ's LBM division three years ago; Ace Hardware, which sold its LBM division the year before, has also broken off its deal with BMA ...

Universal Buitding Specialties, Auburndale, Fl., opened a second branch DC in Charleston, S,C.; Casey Dameron. mgr.

Weverhaeuser Co. consolidated its 'irus Joist and Building Materials sales offices in Charlotte, N.e., at a new single location July I ... :")

Sprenger Midw est Whale sale Lumber, Sioux Falls, S.D., has added a new 20,@0-sq. ft. insulated warehouse for western red cedar...

U.S. Lurnber, Suwanee, Ga.,lost a building during a June 18 fire; the blaze is under investigation

Alarno Forest Products is building a second DC in San Antonio, Tx., targeting an October opening; Mark Ridley, sales mgr. ...

BB&S Treated Lumber of New England, North Kingston, R.I., has completed a plant conversion that increases capacity by75Vo

Maine Waod ,?reserters, Mechanic Falls, Me., has purchased a fourth tube to be installed this fall ...

C he sapeake Hardwood Products pennanently shuttered its Hancock, Vt., plywood nlant JulV 6 ,..

G&GlCherokee Wood Inc., Blaeksburg, S.C., and G&G Lumber Co., Union Grove, N,C., saw the local town council reject its proposal to build a sawmill in Belwood. N.C. ...

Tembec is permanently closing its eastern white pine sawmill Tembec Woodsville Inc., Woodsville, N.H., July 18; Quebec-based Tembec bought the 7O-year-old mill in Nov. 2001 from Quebecbased bavidsan Industries ..,

, Easfern Lumber and Pallet, Porter Township, Pa., sustained $l million in damage to its building, machinery and inventory from a June 7 blaze

Housing, starts in May (latest figures) jumped 6.17o ta"a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.732 million ... single family starts rose 1.5% to 1.378 million: multi-family (5+units) were at a pace of 328,000 ... permits rose 3.7% to an annual ratl of 1.788 inillion''...

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