Serving Bay Area Building Professionals

Economy Lumber Company has been providing quality building materials and unmatched customer service to the Bay Area’s building professionals since 1935. Back then the San Francisco Bay Bridge was under construction. A year later when it opened to traffic there was suddenly a broader market and new challenges in a connected bay. The business changed. Fast forward and we have another new Bay Bridge and another generation running Economy Lumber. Yet many of the challenges are similar. Can we keep learning? Can we adjust to the times? Can we innovate? We’re very proud of where we’ve been, but we know what matters most is where we’re going.

Company President, John Bacon, Jr. and General Manager, Brian Ettlin, rowed on the crew team at Cal together. They still work side-by-side and it’s still about teamwork and connections made and kept. It’s about working a longer day if it means finding the right solution for a customer. It’s about treating homeowner and contractor equally; it’s about respect. It’s about focus and never forgetting you are why we are here and making what’s important to you as important to us.