Mark Falcone
CEO/Founder | Continuum Partners, LLC
Mark Falcone founded Continuum Partners, LLC in Denver in 1997. Since its inception Continuum has successfully completed over $3.0 billion of development and established itself as a national leader of complex, mixed use urban infill projects. Continuum is currently completing development on the $400m mixed use project in Denver called 9+CO, in the Fall of 2021 it completed the $200m Market Station in downtown Denver and the $120m LA Produce project in downtown Los Angeles. Continuum has additional large scale projects in predevelopment in downtown Los Angeles and is rolling forward on a new shared office concept called Tarra “Transforming the Way Women Work” (https://tarra.co/).
Prior to forming Continuum, Mark worked with The Rouse Company’s division of Office and Community Development in Baltimore, MD and served in several key roles in his family’s real estate development group, The Pioneer Companies. He graduated with a BA from Colgate University in 1985.
Throughout his career Mark has been actively engaged in the dialog to advance more sustainable and equitable settlement patterns within his industry and amongst public policy makers. Mark is currently working to advance new legislation in Colorado to meaningfully address the gap in affordability for households earning between 60 – 120% of the average median income. Over the years Mark has served in several volunteer leadership positions for the Nature Conservancy, a not for profit affordable housing developer, NEA’s Mayor’s Institute on City Design and other various organizations focused on the issues and challenges of our built environment. Mark has more recently served on the boards of Colgate University, University of Denver, the Bonfils Stanton Foundation and is currently Vice – Chair of the Biennial of the Americas Board and Trustee Emeritus of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
Mark has two children. Sonya graduated from Colgate University in 2012, earned an MBA from UCLA and is a founding partner of the LA based affordable housing developer Daylight. Luke graduated from Willamette University in 2015 and completed his Masters in Architecture at SciArc in 2020. Mark is married to Ellen Bruss, founder and owner of EBD Design, a branding and graphic design firm.
