Louisville council to consider AdventHealth hospital campus Aug. 4

Louisville City Council is scheduled to consider AdventHealth’s proposed hospital campus at Redtail Ridge on Aug. 4, but no vote had occurred as of Aug. 1. The agenda lists Resolution 66, Series 2026, for its only reading and says the council may take final action on the planned unit development, a special review use for a helipad and a development agreement for 900 Rockcress Drive, according to the city’s agenda packet.

The item was continued from the council’s July 21 public hearing. The agenda and staff materials recommend approval, but a resolution attachment dated Aug. 4 is not evidence of a vote because that date was still in the future. The reporting record contains no later minutes, vote tally, signed resolution or recording receipt.

If approved, the roughly 39.9-acre plan would include a five-story, 371,600-square-foot hospital with 153 beds, including 30 shelled for future construction; a 62,000-square-foot medical-office building; a 2,000-square-foot facilities-storage building; and a helipad. The final PUD submission lists 773 vehicle spaces and access from Northwest Parkway, Campus Drive and South 88th Street. Rockcress Drive and Sorrel Avenue are nearby collector roads.

The proposal has two phases: Phase 1 would build the hospital and site improvements, while Phase 2 would add the medical-office building and related work. The application does not establish a construction start date, opening date or date for relocating AdventHealth’s existing facility.

Traffic projections and improvements

A January 2026 Kimley-Horn study projects 6,268 weekday vehicle trips for a 2030 Phase 1 scenario and 10,632 at modeled full buildout around 2040. The Phase 1 scenario assumes up to 200 hospital beds and 80,000 square feet of medical-office space; full buildout assumes 300 beds and 160,000 square feet of medical offices, beyond the initial proposal. The figures are projections, not post-construction counts, the traffic study says.

The study says the network could accommodate the project if recommended improvements are implemented, including a signal at Campus Drive and 96th Street, turn lanes and extensions near Northwest Parkway, roundabouts at Campus Drive/Sorrel Avenue and Rockcress Drive/Sorrel Avenue, and controls at campus accesses. It recommends stop control at the primary Rockcress Drive entrance in Phase 1 while reserving pavement for another left-turn lane; at full buildout, it favors a signal for emergency-vehicle preemption and visitor access. The record does not establish that the improvements are funded or built, or quantify effects on emergency response times.

Compared with the existing AdventHealth site’s approved potential expansion to 750,000 square feet, the study estimates the proposed campus would add 658 daily trips, 47 morning peak-hour trips and 61 afternoon peak-hour trips. Those are also modeled estimates.

Proposed public improvements, costs and timing

The proposed development agreement would require the developer to design, fund and build phase-specific public improvements, including streets, sidewalks, landscaping, utilities, stormwater and drainage infrastructure, and trails. A phase could not receive a certificate of occupancy until its improvements received Construction Acceptance, followed by a two-year maintenance period before Final Acceptance, the draft agreement provides.

The agreement’s May 6 estimate puts Phase 1 public improvements at $1,258,610 and Phase 2 at $141,862, for a two-phase total of $1,400,472. Before the PUD could be recorded or Phase 1 construction could begin, the developer would have to provide a guarantee equal to 120% of the Phase 1 estimate, or about $1,510,332, through cash, certified funds or an approved letter of credit.

The draft agreement generally gives the developer three years after council approval to obtain building permits, subject to extensions, but leaves completion deadlines for both phases blank. The available record does not show that the agreement or PUD has been recorded or fully executed. The agenda and proposed resolution say remaining technical-review comments and the final public-improvement cost estimate must be resolved before recordation. The record supports reporting scheduled consideration and proposed terms, not completed approval or a construction schedule.