Mark Falcone’s next office building would have only one-half of the space dedicated to that purpose.

“We’ve been concerned that conventional office models were not going to capture or meet the needs of office workers,” he said.

The founder and CEO of Denver-based developer Continuum Partners submitted plans to the city Monday proposing to turn a 4-story, century-old nurses dormitory just east of Colorado Boulevard into “a new kind of workplace ecology,” with fitness, retail, medical and office space all under one roof.

“It’s not an inexpensive building to redevelop,” Falcone said of keeping the structure built in 1927. “It wasn’t because it made economic sense.”

The planned $20 million project is part of Continuum’s 26-acre 9+CO development on the former University of Colorado Health S

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