Second Street Labs Awarded Tom Bradley Fellowship.

We’re proud to announce that the Lab was granted the prestigious Bradley Fellowship from the Green Garage. The fellowship grants a growing Detroit business the chance to work with its team of world-class sustainable businesses.

A More Sustainable Incubator

The Green Garage opened its doors in 2008, founded by Peggy and Tom Brennan. After 3 years of restoring an 1920’s automobile showroom, they revived the building as a sustainable coworking community and virtual office, now home to over 50 businesses.

The building operates with a waste water footprint 10% of the traditional office building and prioritizes sustainable businesses for residence. This makes it distinct in the city: no other Detroit incubator is focused so heavily on the environmental impact of their operations. When considering sustainable community partners, the Garage is second-to-none.

Our mission: a greener take on business, data, and machine learning.

Our mission this summer is simple: provide the data infrastructure for the eco-friendly companies driving the city’s future. Lucky for us, they’re half of the way there.

We’ve spent the past few weeks getting to know the businesses-in-residence at the Garage. Companies like Eco Achievers, Planet Detroit, and the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center use data on a daily basis to make the case for a more sustainable world. Whether it’s public databases or conversations with their local neighbors, they shape data into a human narrative that encourages responsible stewardship of the city’s resources.

This sustainable mission isn’t just a byline, it’s written into the business’ operations. The Garage commits itself to a Triple Bottom Line framework, where they measure their growth by sustainability and social welfare measures in addition to their business profits.

Over the coming months, we’ll be working alongside Green Garage businesses to transform operational and environmental data into practical tools for decision-making. Every project will begin with a real sustainability question—reducing waste, understanding energy use, measuring environmental impact—and end with an open case study describing the methods, results, and lessons learned.

Our goal is not simply to build software. It’s to demonstrate how modern data science and machine learning can help small organizations make better decisions while contributing to a more sustainable Detroit.

We’ll be sharing that journey here throughout the summer. For now, check out our analysis of the Green Garage solar utilities data.