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Huskey Building Supply, Franklin, Tn., late this month is closing its Nashville, Tn., location and opening a new store 15 miles east in Mount Juliet, Tn.; mgrs. Brad Wickham and L,es Pamer are relocating to the new store

Grant County Lumber, Medford, Ok., was acquired by Ken and Annette Liley and renamed Liley Lumber & Supply ...

Huntington Lumber & Supply, Hazlehursto Ms., recently joined Do it Best ...

Western Lumber & Hardware Co.,ElkCity, Ok., has closed ...

Ryan Building Center, Ryan, Ok., was acquired by Jim Seay June I from Les Stowe

Deforest Wood Preserving Co., Bolton, Ms., added a 50x100 storage warehouse for white lumber

C&L Building Supply, Watonga, Ok., was purchased by Steve Tinsley from Charles Poarch, who stays on as mgr.; the business has been renamed S&L Building Center ...

Hugo Sash & Door Co., Hugo Ok., is rebuilding its main storage facility after it was destroyed by a June storm ...

Lowe's Cos. will open next year in Mansfield (Fort Worth), Tx.; acquired 13 acres in Lake Worth, Tx.; got the go-ahead to build in Edmond, Ok., and is scheduled to open in the spring in Danville, Ky.; Meridian, Ms.; Smyrna, Tn., and Beaufort, S.C.

Lowe's is now carrying Amana home appliances; has partnered with NeighborhoodFind, LLC; got permission to build a regional DC on a 225-acre site in Northampton County, N.C., and plans to expand its Statesville, N.C., DC by 260,000 sq. ft.

Bill's Home Center, Pawhuska. Ok., was acquired by Terry Moore, Moores Hardware & Home Center, Pawhuska, from Bill Corsaut; Moore moved his hardwood business to the Bill's location, expanding into lumber...

Pixley Lumber Co., Claremore, Ok., has remerchandised with taller fixtures to increase SKUs bv abolir lAVo Pixlev also continues working with thd city and railroad to eventually build a replacement store

Home Depot opens new stores this month in San Antonio and Austin, Tx., and Hybla Valley, Va.; has broken ground in Greenville, Tx., for a Feb. opening, and pushed back the opening of its Lenoir City, Tn., store until mid2003...

Home Depot is centralizing its purchasing at Atlanta, Ga., Hq.; the eight regional merchandising offices will now focus on improving store sales and service

T.H. Rogers Lumber Co., Madill, Ok., added a 15O-ft.-long shed to replace one "blown away Memorial Day weekend" and has begun building a lO0-ft.-long Tshed...

Pickens Lumber Sales. Clinton. Ms., has begun selling exterior and interior doors made of hardwood lumber

Home Lumber Co.. Seminole. Ok., enclosed an additional 5,000 sq. ft. of its warehouse, increasing interior storage by 30Vo

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Rawles-Aden Lumber Corp., Petersburg, Va., has changed its name to Rawles-Aden Building Products ...

Cooling Tower Resources opened a new service facility September 1 in Texas City, Tx.; Rex Klukis, mgr. ...

America Inc., West Palm Beach, Fl., has changed its name to Rinker Materials Corp.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has shuttered its Keysville, Va., hardwood mill ...

Texas Plywood & Lumber Co., Grand Prairie, Tx., has formed AmbasaDoor, a new subsidiary that will supply doors, millwork, hardware and installation services: Tem Carpenter, division mgr.

Simonton Windows plans to build a 172,000-sq. ft. vinyl window plant in McAlester, Ok.; the $10 million facility is expected to be online by late summer 20f2 and eventually employ 300 workers ...

Handysource. Bradenton, Fl.. has opened a new regional office in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Tx.; Melissa Steinkamp, mgr., client services

Guardian Building Products, Greenville, S.C., has begun a comarketing alliance with construction data provider F.W. Dodge ...

Hogan Hardwoods, Jacksonville, Ar., is nowdistributing Braided Accents; locations include Little Rock, Ar.; Ruston, Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La.; Santa Rose Beach, Fl., and Houston, Tx.

McShan Lumber Co.. McShan. Al.. became the 50th licensee in the American Forest and Paper Associationb Sustainable Forestry lnitiative program

Formosan termites are at their lowest levels in seven vears: this spring an average of 5,264 bugs per trap were found in the French Quarter of New Orleans, compared with 17 ,37 4 per trap in I 999 lrur 6-ru rt', 1r;rr tti, iil",cerlicf rl !lrr:ilit icr, lurrl irc nr-licr is tlxr l;rrgt *r-1oo rmail.

Housing starts in July (latest figs.) climbed 3Vo to a seasonally adjusted rate of L672 million single family starts rose 17o to 1.304 million: multifamily was at a rate of 333,000 for 5+'units building permits fell ZVo to an annual pace of 1.558 million.

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