Central (home improvement store)

Central, Your Partner In Home Improvement was a Canadian home improvement retailer. It operated seven locations in Nova Scotia, Canada. The first store opened in Antigonish in 1976 under the name S&D Smith Central Supplies Limited. Since 1988, Central has opened a number of new stores in the big box format, beginning when the New Glasgow store moved into a 70000 sqft. former Kmart location. The stores in both Sydney and Antigonish were also replaced with new 50000 sqft. stores in 2001 and 2005 respectively. The former Antigonish store has been converted into the distribution centre for the chain.

From the mid-1990s until 2004, the store was known as Central Home Improvement Warehouse. The stores were renamed to Kent Building Supplies on January 1, 2017.

Locations

 * Antigonish
 * Guysborough
 * Inverness
 * New Glasgow
 * Port Hawkesbury
 * Sydney
 * Windsor