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Spanish Harlem, located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is known for its turn-of-last-century brownstones. Many are undergoing renovation, and Mensch Mill and Lumber is the community’s source for building materials and hardware. When an adjacent brownstone became available, owners Jeff …

Hensel’s Ace Hardware has taken an unusual approach to store layout, and owning two buildings in the heart of their city makes that possible. As the Arcata, California, business has grown, it has steadily moved into more of the town’s …

Patricia Anawalt, who died in October at age 91, was a former UCLA anthropologist and chairman of Anawalt Lumber in Los Angeles. The lumber company was founded in 1923 and is still family owned. The business has four retail locations in …

Homes burned to ash, 150-year-old trees vanished as if they had never grown and soot blackened the countryside behind wildfires that spread through tens of thousands of acres in Northern California. At least one local hardware store owner fought the …

The 99th birthday of Cole Hardware founder Dave Karp was a reason for the Karp family and store staff to be grateful this year — and his Oct. 25 death was the loss of the company’s figurehead. Even as he aged, …

The brooms displayed horizontally like flying witches’ brooms in the window at Troup True Value make for a playful Halloween display. And the note with them is a fun play on words: “Witch Broom?” Cindy Troup, co-owner of the store in Sinton, Texas, found inspiration …

Hardware Holdings, LLC, owner of Handy Hardware in Texas, changed its corporate name this month to reposition the company as a national distributor. The new name, World and Main, LLC, is intended to present the company as the operational distributor it …

The month of November is busy for retailers and consumers alike. Most shoppers are out looking to score deals on holiday gifts. And on top of that, retail events like Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday get bigger and bigger …