Prime Time Nurseries is boldly defying the recession and making the most of a lack of nursery provision in Lanarkshire.
Owner and managing director Monica Langa is about to open a 120-place nursery in Maxim, Scotland's largest office park development.
She believes the new £330m office park, situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is an ideal site for such a venture.
Mrs Langa has been running Prime Time Nursery in the city centre of Edinburgh for seven years and has been wanting to expand the business for some time.
It may not seem an ideal time to open a business, but for Mrs Langa, the location was too good to resist.
'Someone I know who is a business advisor put me in touch with Maxim. I was very impressed with their plans, as eventually there will be 7,000 to 10,000 people working on that site. I could see there was such potential there.
'It isn't just going to be a business park, as it will have a putting green, an amphitheatre, restaurants, cafes and leisure facilities. The park is surrounded by fields, so there will be no competition for us. That area has a lack of childcare provision,' she says.
However, she admits that it is difficult to gauge how quickly the park will fill up with companies.
'There are already two other business parks nearby with big employers who have voiced an interest in the nursery,' she says. 'There is also the Dakota Hotel next to the park and staff there have been making enquiries as well. So we are already surrounded by some big, well-established employers.'
The nursery is in its final stages of completion and Mrs Langa plans to open in October. It will run from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, but may open on Saturdays if there is a demand.
She has taken bookings with deposits from people already working at the new business park and has started recruiting staff. 'At the moment, we are only recruiting the senior staff such as a manager, deputy manager and room leaders.'
Eventually she expects to have 40 to 50 full- and part-time staff working at the nursery.
She wants the nursery to evolve gradually, so is hoping to open with around ten children and build it up from there. The nursery will have one of Scotland's largest outdoor play areas, with patio doors from each different room leading out to it. There will also be a wild garden and another garden for planting vegetables, herbs and flowers.
For Mrs Langa, the whole experience of opening a new nursery in these cash-strapped times has been very different from opening her first setting in Edinburgh seven years ago.
'Normally we would have been supported by Scottish Enterprise, but their budgets are quite tight at the moment,' she says. 'We have had a small amount of money from North Lanarkshire Council and they have been helping us with advertising for staff and sourcing candidates. However, everyone is trying to make savings. It has been very different this time round.'