HD Supply expands distribution facilities and bolsters line-card

Boston’s real estate community is ga-ga over plans by HD Supply, Atlanta, to lease 152,590 square feet in the Boston Business Park, Dedham, Mass., which has quick access to the Route 128 beltway and downtown Boston. HD Supply already leases 5,500 square feet in the industrial park and will move into the larger facility in February 2011. A report by The Real Reporter said the HD Supply facility “has clear heights to 32 feet, plus efficient column spacing and countless loading docks.”

The Dayton Business Journal also reported that HD Supply signed a five-year lease for a 100,000-square-foot building in Greenville, Ohio.

In separate news, HD Supply also added a supplier to round-out its smart-grid offerings. Sequentric Energy Systems, LLC, Wilmington, N.C., inked a deal with HD Supply Utilities, the largest distributor of utility products in North America, to distribute its Sequentric Energy Systems product line, which provides two-way communication between the electric utility and a homeowner’s electrical loads

Sequentric said in a press release that its Internet Protocol-based products and software systems provide electric utilities with a wide range of proven, cost-efficient smart grid options. By enabling demand, consumption and information management with a variety of control and storage innovations, Sequentric’s technology empowers a utility company to create custom network-based smart grid solutions that can benefit the utility as well as its customers. The press release also said Sequentric products will be an integral part of HD Supply Utilities’ smart grid technology solution suite, which includes hardware, software and services comprising total, end-to-end demand response solutions, from generation source to in-home smart appliances.