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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

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If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right.

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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

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It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

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Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

         – Jodi Picoult

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

         – Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

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Everything is connected, no one thing can change by itself.

         – Paul Hawken

Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen as once.

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Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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Do. Or do not. There is no try.

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“One Minute With…” Tim Mackie, Vice President of Development

August 11, 2022


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“One Minute With…” Tim Mackie, Vice President of Development

Tim Mackie is Vice President of Development at Core Investments. He’s been with the growing company a long time, joining in August of 2005.

 

What do you actually do for Core?

I do a lot of different things for Core, but basically I manage development projects. I’ve managed the Washington Village entitlements, and I manage Core’s part of Washington Village, a joint venture, from an owner’s perspective. I worked on On the Dot, and now I’m basically heading up our environmental portfolio, managing the cleanup of our formerly industrial properties.

 

What did you do before Core?

I owned my own construction company. We focused on renovations, high-end renovations in the Back Bay, kitchens and bathrooms mostly, and brownstone conversions.

 

Where did you go to school?

Wentworth Institute of Technology.

 

 

And where did you grow up?

I grew up in the Berkshires, in Richmond, Massachusetts, on the New York border.

 

What do you do to have fun and when you’re not working?

I like to play golf, ride my bike, paddle-board, go to the beach. I like to travel, and I enjoy riding motorcycles.

 

Where do you live now?

I live in Boston, the South End, on West Newton Street.

 

What’s a favorite place of yours in the Boston area?

I like Titus Sparrow Park in my neighborhood. And local restaurants, particularly Petit Robert Bistro, on Columbus Avenue.


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