Do new Gyms spawn in Pokémon GO?

I was cruisin' in the passenger seat the other day playing some Pokémon GO when I see a rare, grey, unclaimed Gym. I get the driver to make a right and we mosey on up to this Gym. Unfortunately two Instinct players roll up and claim the gym. My Pokémon are no match for their Gyarados and Exeggutor, and we drive off.

What strikes me as odd is that this Gym is in the middle of the downtown area. A very busy place, with multiple Gyms at maximum prestige. Was this a newly-spawned Gym, or had it simply avoided the public eye until theexact same momentme and the Instinct players saw it?

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It’s already 4 days since those 2 other answers were posted, and the fact that you commented 3 days ago so you must have seen them probably means you aren’t satisfied with them, so I’ll try to answer this myself.

As the other answer said, the gym was ignored until you saw it. The other one said that Ninatic added more gyms without announcement. I have another answer.

When I play Pokemon Go, I usually play it in my bus home from school. There was this one time, I passed a gym that was soeasyto defeat, just a cp 47 (somewhere near 47) Butterfree. I defeated the gym (yay). However, when the battle was over my bus went too far and I thought it was rude to ask my driver back especially since there were other people in the bus, so I beated a gym without claiming it for Mystic :( but atleast I got experience. Perhaps the gym you saw was defeated but not claimed because the person who defeated it was in a hurry or went too far in a vehicle.

Hope I helped!

probably ignored until you and them saw it

Probably not. Last time I checked you couldn’t request a gym anymore on the official website. Unless they changed it or someone from Niantic spawned it.