Data Driven Detroit now calls TechTown home, completing its move from the Barden building in downtown Detroit from earlier this year.
The 4-year-old organization dedicated toward collecting statistics and harnessing them for the greater good of Metro Detroit called the Barden building near Comerica Park home until earlier this year when Grand Valley University purchased it. The university planned to use the building for its own charter school operations, which sent Data Driven Detroit looking for a new home. That's when Leslie Smith, president & CEO of
TechTown, began to roll out the red carpet for Data Driven Detroit.
"They bent over backwards to find us some space and help us along," says Kurt Metzger, director of
Data Driven Detroit.
Data Driven Detroit now employs 20 people after making three hires over the last year. It was attracted to TechTown's New Center campus because of its high-speed Internet connections and collaborative atmosphere for startups.
"It's facilitating interaction with a lot of TechTown clients," Metzger says. "We are working with a lot of people who can use our services and whom we can go to if we have questions."
Source: Kurt Metzger, director of Data Driven Detroit
Writer: Jon Zemke
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