AdventHealth Louisville Hospital (Avista Replacement), Colorado

AdventHealth’s new Louisville hospital is a $475 million, five-story inpatient building on 40 acres at Redtail Ridge in Louisville, Colorado, and it replaces the system’s AdventHealth Avista hospital. The Turner-FH joint venture, pairing Turner Construction with Denver-based FH Construction Group, broke ground on Oct. 14, 2026. AdventHealth expects to open in the first quarter of 2029.

The site sits near U.S. 36 and Northwest Parkway on land that once held a large StorageTek campus. AdventHealth’s regional entity bought the tract in early 2025 for $34 million from an affiliate of Sterling Bay, master developer of the roughly 300-acre Redtail Ridge property, according to BizWest.

Project Scope

Published sizes don’t quite match. Turner and Construction Dive put the hospital at about 373,000 square feet, Becker’s Hospital Review says 375,000, and the city’s project narrative lists about 371,600 square feet for the hospital plus a 62,000-square-foot medical office building and a small storage building.

AdventHealth says the hospital will open with up to 150 beds and room to grow. The city filing gets more specific: 153 inpatient rooms, 30 of them shelled for future build-out, along with a helipad, loading dock, ambulance drop-off and a planted stormwater corridor it calls the Ribbon. It describes the whole site as a phased development over 10 to 20 years.

SmithGroup is credited on the project rendering, and World Construction Network lists ADAMS, WSP, SmithGroup and Kimley-Horn as working alongside the builder without spelling out roles. Turner vice president Scott Bustos called the job “a significant investment in the future of healthcare in Colorado.”

Why It Matters

Emergency access is the core argument. According to World Construction Network, about 80,000 residents now face a 17-minute trip to emergency care, and the new hospital is expected to cut travel times for more than 400,000 people. The design also draws on lessons from the Marshall Fire, which burned through Louisville and Superior in late 2021.

AdventHealth will keep 7.5 acres of the existing Avista campus as protected open space with the city, and outpatient services there continue for now. What happens to the rest of that campus is still undecided.

For Front Range healthcare builders, it’s another sign that Colorado systems would rather build new than keep renovating old. UCHealth broke ground on its Memorial Hospital North expansion in Colorado Springs a day earlier.

Project Team & Details