Denver is the site of a 300,000-square-foot digital health center, called Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation.
The partnership between a developer and a healthcare entrepreneur hope to make Colorado America’s “digital health capital."
The partnership has acquired a full city block of land in Denver and four companies already plan to be tenants: Corvectra, a Silicon Valley startup working on a needle-free blood sensor; cybersecurity incubator Entrepy; telemedicine startup Telespine, of nearby Boulder; and electronics-maker Premier Manufacturing, which reportedly will create a 3-D lab at Catalyst.
“Catalyst HTI will bring together private enterprise (startups to Fortune 20), government, academic and nonprofit organizations with healthcare providers and payers to accelerate innovation and drive real, lasting change for the healthcare industry and our nation,”
The first phase of construction, of a 180,000-square-foot facility, including 10,000 square feet of retail space, will start in about a year, according to Catalyst HTI. It will open by the end of 2017.
Eventually, the complex will grow to 300,000 square feet, and include an events center, a fitness facility, a rooftop deck and a café. The developers said they are designing the space to encourage personal wellness as well as collaboration among tenants.
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