Kids! Come have a ball! Or 60,000 of them! There's a new type of business franchise that is popping up in shopping malls and neighborhoods across America. At least two nationwide companies are offering pay-per-use indoor playgrounds, which feature toys, games, supervised fun and a workout that doesn't break the family bank.
As public playgrounds grow increasingly seedy, the for-profit centers offer * clean, safe, supervised activity as well as a variety of challenging exercises to develop youngsters' physical fitness, usually for a fee of around $5 an hour. "Playgrounds are dirty, not supervised," says Dick Guggenheimer, owner of the two-month-old...
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