Company History

The Mount Vernon Building Center was established in 1981 in Skagit County in the State of Washington, as a supplier of building materials to the residents and contractors of the Pacific Northwest. Over the years many things have changed, but what remains constant is our commitment to supplying high quality products to our customers in a timely fashion at a fair and reasonable price.

Over those years, our product mix and service areas have both expanded greatly. We now serve customers throughout the Northwest, as well as in other areas of the Pacific Rim. A substantial part of our business is now in Asia, primarily in Japan.

In 1991 the business moved from its original building to a much larger facility, still in Mount Vernon. That move allowed us to broaden our scope of products and serve a wider variety of customers. That same year we began to load containers with materials for residential and commercial construction products overseas. That portion of our business has grown dramatically over the last several years, and was a factor in our company growth.

On June 1,  1997 we moved into our new facility, which was designed and built according to our specifications. It includes substantially more dry storage area for lumber and plywood, as well as a loading dock which makes consolidation of materials here on our site much more efficient. Also in 1997, the company was purchased by three of its long-term employees. When they acquired the company, Ed Gegen, Sue Armstrong and Kevin Kok collectively had spent about forty years at the Mount Vernon Building Center, and continue to manage it on a daily basis as a division of Pacific Lumber Products, Inc. We believe the new company name better reflects the growing customer community that we serve.

In October 2001 , we expanded this facility in order to stock a larger breadth of products and better serve our growing customer base.

We hope that we will have an opportunity to serve you in the near future, and that you will become a part of that growing customer community as well.