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Agave Animal Hospital is going up on River Road in St. George, and we would rather show you than tell you. Here is the building as it actually looks, one job-site update at a time, newest first. We are not open yet; we expect to open in early 2027.

September 24, 2026

Permit in hand, walls going up

The city has finalized our building permit, and this building has not slowed down since. In our August update the floor was open dirt and trenches. Now there is finished concrete almost everywhere you step, and metal-stud walls are going up all over the building.

This is our favorite update so far, because it is the first one where the building starts to look like a hospital. Those outlines of metal studs are rooms now. You can finally walk the floor plan instead of squinting at it on paper: the exam rooms, surgery, the treatment area, all of it.

The plumbing that went in underground in August now comes up through the finished floor at the base of the new walls. And the floor for our dog runs is in. It is the darker, freshly poured section in two of the photos below, with drains built in along its edges so the runs are easy to wash down and keep clean. That is where hospitalized patients will rest and recover.

If River Road is part of your drive, you may have already spotted our name on the sign out front. People keep stopping to ask about the building, and sign-ups for our opening list keep coming in. Thank you. The excitement from St. George has honestly been one of the best parts of this whole project.

The same goes for the people who want to work here. The number of people who have reached out about joining our team has blown us away, and we read every application. If that could be you, we would still love to hear from you: see our open positions.

Things keep moving smoothly, which means we expect to put a real opening date on the calendar soon. Until then we are still planning on early 2027, and once that date is set, the people on our opening list will be the first to know.

Two construction workers framing interior walls inside the Agave Animal Hospital building in St. George, Utah, one standing on a rolling scaffold and one kneeling at its base, surrounded by metal studs under wood roof trusses and insulation.
The crew at work: one on top of a rolling scaffold, one kneeling below, with new metal-stud walls all around and trusses and insulation overhead.
Wide interior view with metal-stud room framing on the left and right, a large drum fan in the middle, storefront windows at the far end, and a strip of open dirt and rock in the foreground with a long metal channel set along its edge.
Rooms framed in metal studs on both sides, windows at the far end, and one strip of floor still open ground, with a long channel set along its edge.
A rectangular room outlined by metal studs on a concrete floor, beneath exposed wood roof trusses and insulation, with sheathed wood walls behind it.
A room outlined in metal studs, under the trusses and insulation.
Looking through a series of metal-stud framed openings toward the back of the building, with a black pipe rising from the concrete floor and a yellow ladder at the right edge.
Framed openings lined up one behind another, with a pipe coming up through the floor.
View between metal-stud walls toward a glass storefront door at the front of the Agave Animal Hospital building, with a folding table near the door and a pickup truck parked outside.
Looking between framed walls toward the glass doors at the front, with a pickup parked outside.
A worker in an orange shirt kneeling beside a rolling scaffold between metal-stud walls, with an empty framed room on a concrete floor in the foreground.
A crew member kneels by a rolling scaffold, with a newly framed room in the foreground.
Low, close view of metal studs standing in a bottom track fastened to the concrete floor, with more wall framing and a rolling ladder in the background.
Down at floor level, where the metal studs sit in the track that runs along the floor.
Portrait view of metal-stud room framing beneath wood roof trusses and insulation, looking toward glass doors at the far end of the building.
Framed walls under the trusses, with glass doors at the far end.
Portrait view from inside a room outlined in metal studs, with a round opening in the concrete floor and windows at the far end of the building.
Standing inside one of the framed rooms, with a round opening in the floor.
Portrait view down a long row of metal-stud walls under wood trusses, with an orange job box, a blue cooler and a stepladder at the left.
A long run of framed walls, with a job box and a cooler at the left.
Upward view inside a room framed with metal studs, the tops of the studs meeting exposed wood trusses and insulation, with a gray panel box on the sheathed wall at right.
Looking up from inside a framed room, where the metal studs meet the trusses.
Inside a room outlined in metal studs against sheathed wood walls, with a worker crouched at the far left and building materials on the floor of the room beyond.
Inside another framed room, with a crew member at work at the far left.
Blue and red tubing and a black pipe rising from the concrete floor at the base of a metal-stud wall, beside a round opening in the floor.
Blue and red tubing and a black pipe come up through the floor at the base of a wall.
Red and blue tubing and black pipes rising from the concrete floor at the corner of a metal-stud wall.
Tubing and pipes coming up through the floor at the corner of another wall.
A rectangle of freshly poured, darker concrete set into the finished floor, with slotted channel drains along two edges, a gray panel box on the wall behind it, and open doorways letting in daylight.
A section of fresh concrete, still darker than the floor around it, with slotted channels set along two of its edges.
Another view of the darker freshly poured floor section with a slotted channel drain along its edge, two gray metal doors with exit signs on the wall behind, and metal-stud framing at right.
The same fresh section from another angle, with two gray doors on the wall behind it.
A wood-framed wall with blue and white tubing, a spigot with a hose attached, and a black pipe leaning against it, beside an open exterior doorway under an exit sign, with metal-stud rooms in the space beyond.
A wood-framed wall with pipes, tubing and a spigot, a doorway open to the outside, and framed rooms beyond.
Wide view of a long front room inside the Agave Animal Hospital building, with bundles of metal studs on the concrete floor, storefront windows and glass double doors at the far end, and wood trusses overhead.
A long room at the front of the building, with windows and a pair of glass doors at the far end.
Bundles of metal studs and track lying on a concrete floor in a room with storefront windows, glass doors, and a work light and cords in the foreground.
Bundles of metal studs on the floor, waiting to become more walls.
A front corner of the building with glass double doors and windows, an orange job box, coolers and a cart of supplies on the floor, and a tall roadside sign visible through the window.
A corner by the glass doors, with a job box, coolers and supplies, and a tall sign outside.
Sunlight pouring through a corner of storefront windows onto the bare concrete floor of the Agave Animal Hospital building, with one glass door propped open to a landscaped sidewalk outside.
Sun through the storefront glass, with one of the doors propped open.

August 5, 2026

Underground plumbing goes in

The building is framed, the roof is on, and the front glass is set — so from River Road it already looks close to done. Inside, it is nowhere near it, and that is exactly where it should be. Most of the floor is still open ground while the underground plumbing goes in.

This is the part of a hospital nobody ever sees. Every exam room sink, every surgery scrub sink, every floor drain in the treatment area and the kennels starts as a pipe in a trench, set to the right slope, inspected, and then buried under the concrete floor. It has to be right the first time, because the next chance to change it involves a saw and a very bad day.

Once the lines are in and signed off, the trenches get backfilled and the rest of the floor is poured. After that the building starts moving quickly — interior walls, mechanical, and the rooms begin to look like rooms.

An open trench cut through red soil inside the Agave Animal Hospital building in St. George, with a white pipe standing up out of the trench, bare wood wall framing behind it, and a full-height glass storefront letting in daylight.
The floor is open so the lines that run beneath it can go in. Finished concrete picks up again on the right.
Wide interior view of the Agave Animal Hospital under construction: exposed wood roof trusses overhead, framed and sheathed walls, and a bare subgrade floor with several white pipe stub-ups standing in the dirt.
Most of the floor is still open ground. The short white pipes standing up out of the dirt get buried when the rest of the slab is poured.
Close view of a trench cut through a concrete floor slab exposing soil and gravel beneath, with two white pipes running up inside a stud wall and broken-out concrete piled to one side.
A closer look where a section of slab was opened up — pipe stubbed up into the wall, bare soil below.
Framed interior walls inside the Agave Animal Hospital building, with a window set into a recessed opening, a strip of poured concrete along the wall base, and storefront glazing letting in daylight at right.
It is not all dirt. Interior walls are framed, a window is set, and the first sections of floor are down.
Upward view of wood roof trusses with insulation above them inside the Agave Animal Hospital building in St. George, Utah, with hanging light fixtures, bare stud walls, and two bright door openings below.
Looking up at the bones of the building — roof trusses and insulation already in place.
View from inside the Agave Animal Hospital building through a large storefront window onto River Road in St. George, Utah, with wood roof trusses overhead and part of the concrete floor already poured.
From inside, looking out at River Road. If it is part of your drive, you can watch this happen.

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We’re not open yet — Agave Animal Hospital, St. George’s newest independently owned veterinary hospital, is expected to open in early 2027. We can’t wait to meet you and your pets.