Kenty and Steward both say the gym and the center are a benefit to the depressed southwestern Detroit neighborhood as well as the city.
For one, it keeps at-risk kids out of trouble, Steward says, citing a recent attempted car theft in front of the building that was thwarted by Kronk fighter Johnathon Banks.
"A lot of these kids would be in the streets" were it not for the Kronk, Steward said. "They live for this."
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