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# Clarification: Fisher Lumber closure was not caused by City Hall property purchase
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/021705-story-20050217-2/
- Published: 2005-02-17T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:07:15.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

CLARIFICATION — An article in the Feb. 16 edition of the Daily Press about Fisher Lumber closing after 82 years of service in Santa Monica failed to make clear that the business would have closed even if City Hall had not bought the three-acre property. As Eric Jorgensborg, president of the lumber yard stated in the article, Fisher was sold by its parent company, Weyerhaeuser Co.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 17, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021705.pdf?ref=smdp.com)