84 Lumber in Bowling Green closed Monday, joining three other 84 Lumber stores that shut their doors throughout the state.

The home and construction supply store, which located in Bowling Green in 2006 on Cedar Way off U.S. 31-W By-Pass, employed six workers.

The Hopkinsville 84 Lumber also closed Monday; that store, along with the Bowling Green store, will consolidate with the 84 Lumber in Russellville, and officials are trying to offer each employee the opportunity to relocate to another location, said Jeff Nobers, spokesperson for 84 Lumber.

“We’re not a big retailer,” he said. “We don’t need a store every six or seven miles … Russellville will service the western end of the state.”

The Bowling Green store closed because the local home construction market is not up to par.

“It’s a slow building market there,” Nobers said.

This year, Bowling Green issued 229 permits for single-family units; 84 Lumber prefers to operate in an area that issues about 3,000 home building permits a year, Nobers said.

Poor market conditions have plagued 84 Lumber stores nationwide. The company shut down 20 stores nationwide Monday; some stores closed due to construction market conditions, and others closed because their area housed too many 84 Lumber stores.

“It’s not just in direct response to what’s going on (in the economy) today,” Nobers said. “As the market recovers, how do we want to be positioned when the market turns around?”