Island Time – Vineyard Haven

Island Time frames its development as a long regulatory and construction project: its About page says the caregiver experience prompted eight and a half years of work with state and local authorities. Independent reporting adds the financing challenge. In 2019, The Martha’s Vineyard Times reported that Patient Centric’s partnership with Acreage Holdings had taken effect in November 2018. CEO Geoff Rose told the newspaper that the capital required exceeded what he could raise from local lenders. He also said local contractors completed the West Tisbury building’s construction, electrical and IT work. Together, those accounts offer more specific provenance than an island-themed brand story: patient care supplied the initial motive, while regulation, construction and outside financing shaped the path to the storefront.

Google gives the Gingerbread Houses route as a 3.74-mile, 11-minute drive and Jaws Bridge as a 6.75-mile, 17-minute drive. Both are traffic-unaware estimates, not live-traffic forecasts. Nobska Lighthouse is listed as a 13.18-mile, 68-minute drive on the same traffic-unaware basis.