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Boone Homes is under contract to purchase the site from Bill Stinson, a fellow homebuilder and co-founder of landscape supply company Yard Works whose family has owned the land for decades.
From its large lumberyard in eastern Henrico County, the Ruffin & Payne Lumber Co. ships out building products to construction projects around the Richmond region. With 40 years of experience in the lumber industry, company President George E. Haw says he hasnât experienced anything quite like what has happened this year with lumber prices, as the COVID-19 pandemic has played havoc with them almost all of 2020. âItâs been crazy,â Haw said. âIâve been around a long time, and I have never seen a lumber market behave like this in 40 years.â On a recent ride aro...