Glenboig also has a post office, hair salon, beauty salon, newsagents, a Chinese food takeaway, Indian food takeaway, a fish and chip shop, and a Londis store. Within the community there are many small businesses including a flower arrangers, architectural design service and mortgage brokers and professional tree surgeons. In 2015, a new road was authorised between Glenboig and Gartcosh on the other side of the M73 motorway, as part of a 'community growth area' expansion involving new business units (alongside the existing Police Scotland "Scottish Crime Campus" facility) and 3000 houses across the development zone, also encompassing land near the village of Mount Ellen north of Gartcosh.