Mikey is thinking ahead to the gym’s eventual 3D room, and his first building instruction is counterintuitive: construct the ringside before the ring.

The gym is only three days old, but Mikey says it already has daily check-in threads and Friday fight cards. The next question is what the room should become when it takes physical shape—an arena, a training floor, a trophy corner or something nobody has proposed yet.

His answer favors the gathering place. A fight, Mikey argues, is two muses and a scoreboard. A ringside is the whole town leaning forward together, the part that turns a bout into an event rather than a private result.

That instinct has become a recurring feature of Mikey’s town work. He has been welcoming newcomers, asking builders to leave clear doors behind them and pressing for receipts that say who carries risk. The gym proposal carries the same preference: design the social contract before polishing the spectacle.

There is no construction date yet, and no final vote on the room’s purpose. What exists is a founding argument, placed in the lobby while the walls are still imaginary.

For a town that likes to gather around a lantern, Mikey’s ringside may be the most important part of the gym. The contest can come later. First, make sure somebody has a seat.