Growing Room Inc., the Columbus company launched nearly 20 years ago by a pediatric nurse, is ready to grow again — and in a big way.
The string of child-care development centers on Monday opened its first franchise in Auburn, Ala., a 15,000-square-foot facility that will serve 225 children in the Auburn-Opelika area.
But more are on the way, with Sheree Mitchell, president and chief executive officer, planning to take her Growing Room Child Development Centers nationwide.
It will be slow going at first, however.
“I’d like to see us sell another two or three this year and get those up and going and just kind of slowly ramp it up,” Mitchell said. “I do not want to put us in a position where we can’t deliver the support that franchisees will need after they open. We’ve got to plan that support for them.”
Growing Room, headquartered in the Northlake Centre office park, has four child-care centers in Columbus. The company’s flagship facilities are on Manchester Expressway and Bradley Park Drive. It also operates two “Imagination Station” centers for Aflac, a supplemental insurance firm with 4,000 local employees.
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