As the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, 14-year-old son and two cats, Vanessa Gorman-Dow’s apartment in Keene is something of an indoor playground, and that’s the concept she’s toying with in a region she feels lacks safe, spirited recreation options inside.

Gorman-Dow is developing Break Free Indoor Activity Center, which she compared to businesses like Cowabunga’s in Manchester, Krazy Kids in Pembroke and Nuthin’ But Good Times in Merrimack, known as kids’ party or play centers.

Though still in its planning stages, she said she’d like to launch her business in Keene sometime next summer. Read more.