Tim Rowe changes the world with each endeavor

Last week, we talked with Tim Rowe about his newest endeavor, CIC Health. He tells the backstory of how it came to be,

Tim Rowe is one of those people you should never underestimate. He thinks big about all of his challenges, and CIC Health is no exception. Its earliest days were an effort to get testing to the many people who occupy CIC’s office space — it is very hard to fill an office — especially when it is shared office space — if there is a airborne viral pandemic happening. From that earliest foray into testing, CIC Health was asked to expand beyond their own walls and test people on the outside. From there, vaccination sites made sense, and with Tim, it’s never a small endeavor.

I don’t know if it’s correct to call Tim “Zelig-like.” I mean it as a compliment and it should be understood as such in this context. His footprint on the Boston area will be felt long after he departs the scene. From his path-breaking start with the Cambridge Innovation Center, to his role in creating District Hall in the Seaport District of Boston to CIC Health, he has participated in some of the most impressive endeavors of the past two decades in this 400 year old city.

We took the first part of the interview to talk about CIC itself, because it is so world-changing all by itself. Shared workspaces have been hit hard by Covid, but it is reasonable to assume they will be back and their impact on the urban office market has not yet fully been felt, I think it’s fair to say that.

I appreciated his willingness to come onto unPlanned, and we hope to have him back some other time.