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94 / BUILDING DIALOGUE / March 2018 views of the Mile High skyline. Those surveyed prior to design said they wanted industrial chic and that is certainly what The Beck Group has delivered. Amenities For The Way We Live & Work When you enter the lobby of Catalyst, you’re imme- diately struck by the openness of the vast, four-story atrium space bathed in natural light. By design, the lobby will also be home to restaurants and a promi- nent coffee shop. “You can walk into some of these trophy buildings in Chicago or New York and they spend $10 million on the lobby, but it’s always empty,” says Koelbel. “We wanted to make sure our lobby was always active and has a buzz to it.” And one of the biggest features is, indeed, the grand wood and steel open-tread staircase. “We did a lot of studies on that,” says Morris. “What’s the appropriate width that would allow people to move comfortably, but then have enough room to stop, gather and have impromptu meetings. It’s very open and from the first floor lobby you can see and get a sense of the connectivity up through several floors of the building.” Koelbel says that another way they viewed the building was as a “multifamily building.” “The way people work and live is different now,” he says. “Those two things are blended more so that’s why we have a lot of the amenities that you need to draw those large tech companies to look at your space. From the large event centers to collaboration areas, different fitness areas, cafés and more.” Other interior features include a shared executive boardroom and “living room” on the seventh floor, as wells as a shared kitchen on the fourth floor. An at- tached building next door houses parking and event center. Of the building’s 25,000-square-foot floor plate, only 12,000 sf is rentable space and the rest is common ar- eas so the feeling throughout will be very open and airy. All 63 suites are sold out, as well as the 30 desks and as of this writing, a total of 78 companies have com- mitted to Catalyst, including major players like Kaiser Permanente, which will have a primary care facility, Prime Health, CirrusMD, American Diabetes Associa- tion, Egg Strategy, Terumo BCT and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Catalyst HTI seems to be exactly what its founding partners envisioned. It’s industrial chic look bridges Ri- No’s industrial past with its tech future and it has al- ready attracted the mix of tenants needed to make the health care innovation ecosystem thrive and succeed. What Biselli, Burgess and Koelbel envision is a moonshot of sorts. But, it’s one we have to try. And ac- cording to Biselli, it really must work. “We’re not going to reimagine health care just through the largest and most powerful organizations that have dominated the space for the past 50 years,” says Biselli. “And it won’t happen with startups alone. We have to do it together. Because if we don’t, we are trending toward a $5 trillion problem that can bring our country to its knees.” \\ / Catalyst HTI A Revolution in Health Care Hits RiNo / TOP: The corner of 35th Street and Brighton Boulevard is activated through ground- floor restaurant/retail space. Courtesy Ryan Dravitz Photography BOTTOM: 35th Street frontage. Courtesy Ryan Dravitz Photography