Berry Rock Building

A new landmark. A historic district. The northern gateway to Oklahoma City's next chapter.

SYS.REQ // BRB-OKC

Modern Design Meets Downtown Ambition.

Located at 616 N. Walnut Ave in Oklahoma City's Flatiron District, the Berry Rock Building is a four-story landmark at the northern entry to downtown. Designed by Rand Elliott, FAIA, its triangular form suits the site while projecting a contemporary, forward-looking presence — enhancing walkability, providing inviting public space, and strengthening the surrounding urban fabric.

Building Size 60,000 SQFT

Stories 4

Parking 100 SPACES

Location FLATIRON DISTRICT, OKC

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Exterior architectural rendering of Berry Rock Building four-story triangular form at 616 N. Walnut Ave, Oklahoma City

RENDER_01: EXTERIOR VIEW CONCEPT

Street-level angled view of Berry Rock Building at the corner of 616 N. Walnut Ave in Oklahoma City's Flatiron District

RENDER_02: APPROACH ANGLE FLATIRON DISTRICT

Signature Feature

ARCHITECTURE

Berry Rock Building at the Flatiron — signature corner sculpture

25 FT ABOVE THE HIGHWAY

SOUTH GATEWAY ORIENTATION

616 N. WALNUT AVE

A Structure That Points Forward

The triangular nose of the Berry Rock Building is the building's most distinctive feature. It rises at the convergence of the district's diagonal streets, a physical expression of the same geometry that has defined every flatiron building here since the streetcar rails were laid in 1903.

Oriented southward, elevated 25 feet above the highway below, it marks the threshold between the existing downtown and the skyline being built around it. A new glass arena is coming. The Innovation District continues to expand. The sculpture faces all of it.

Aerial view of Berry Rock Building steel structure rising at 616 N. Walnut Ave at sunset, March 2026

SUNSET AERIAL — MARCH 2026 01 / 14

High aerial view of triangle structural installation at Berry Rock Building, Flatiron District Oklahoma City

TRIANGLE INSTALLATION — HIGH VIEW 02 / 14

Triangle structural installation at Berry Rock Building under construction at 616 N. Walnut Ave

TRIANGLE INSTALLATION 03 / 14

Co-founders Nick Berry and Cameron Rock at Berry Rock Building midway construction site tour, March 2026

BERRY & ROCK — MIDWAY 04 / 14

Berry Rock Building construction site tour showing structural progress, Oklahoma City Flatiron District

PROJECT TOUR — MARCH 2026 05 / 14

Exterior architectural rendering of Berry Rock Building four-story triangular design at 616 N. Walnut Ave, Oklahoma City

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APPROACH VIEW 07 / 14

Front facade view of Berry Rock Building at 616 N. Walnut Ave, Oklahoma City

FRONT VIEW 08 / 14

Berry Rock Building groundbreaking ceremony at 616 N. Walnut Ave in Oklahoma City's Flatiron District, September 2025

GROUNDBREAKING 09 / 14

Nick Berry speaking at Berry Rock Building groundbreaking ceremony, September 23 2025

NICK BERRY — GROUNDBREAKING 10 / 14

Jeff Johnson speaking at Berry Rock Building groundbreaking ceremony in Oklahoma City's Flatiron District

JEFF JOHNSON — GROUNDBREAKING 11 / 14

Architect Rand Elliott, co-founder Nick Berry, and Cameron Rock at Berry Rock Building groundbreaking

ELLIOTT, BERRY & ROCK 12 / 14

Full development team and partners shoveling at Berry Rock Building groundbreaking ceremony, September 2025

GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY 13 / 14

Aerial view of Berry Rock Building site at 616 N. Walnut Ave with Oklahoma City downtown skyline in background

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Development Trajectory

PHASE: ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

2024–2025

Site Acquisition & Design

Securing the 616 N. Walnut Ave location in the Flatiron District and completing architectural planning with Rand Elliott Architects.

SEPT 2025

Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking ceremony held September 23, 2025, with Lingo Construction leading the build.

2025–2026

Vertical Construction

Core structural construction and steel framing for the four-story triangular form designed by Rand Elliott.

SEPT 2026

Completion & Opening

Grand opening September 25, 2026. Finalization of building systems, interior outfitting, and initial tenant move-ins.

Partners

LEADERSHIP

NICK BERRY CO-FOUNDER

Nick Berry

Co-Founder, Berry Rock

Nick Berry has spent more than a decade doing something most financial companies won't: meeting Oklahoma families exactly where they are on the path to owning a home. As co-founder of Berry Rock, he built the company around a conviction that the gap between "not yet qualifying" and true homeownership doesn't have to be a dead end. Berry Rock's lease-to-own pathway model — now encompassing nearly 700 homes across Oklahoma and Missouri and backed by an $8 million investment from the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office — is a direct expression of that belief.

For Berry, the building at 616 N. Walnut Ave. is an extension of the same idea applied to a neighborhood. The Flatiron District has long been a threshold place — the gateway between downtown and the communities to the northeast — and Berry Rock's decision to plant its permanent headquarters here is a statement about belonging to a place, not just operating within it. The building consolidates Berry Rock's homebuilding, mortgage, and insurance operations under one roof for the first time, giving the company a physical home as distinctive as the mission it has always carried.

A University of Oklahoma graduate, Nick Berry is based in Oklahoma City.

BERRY ROCK HOMES ↗

Cameron Rock

Co-Founder, Berry Rock

Cameron Rock built Berry Rock from the premise that homeownership is not a privilege — it's an achievable milestone for anyone with the right support and a clear path forward. As co-founder and Managing Partner, Rock has shaped Berry Rock into an integrated platform where homebuilding, mortgage origination, and insurance work together, removing the friction that keeps too many families on the outside of the market looking in.

His belief in Oklahoma City's urban potential is equally deep. When the team began evaluating a permanent home for Berry Rock's headquarters, Rock saw the Flatiron District not as a risk but as an inevitability. "This corner of the city has long deserved thoughtful investment," he said at the September 2025 groundbreaking — a sentiment that captures both his patience and his directness. The four-story Berry Rock Building, with its triangular form echoing the historic flatiron blocks of the district, is designed to be a landmark that earns its place at the northern gateway to downtown.

A University of Oklahoma graduate, Cameron Rock is based in Oklahoma City.

BERRY ROCK HOMES ↗

CAMERON ROCK CO-FOUNDER

JEFF JOHNSON DEVELOPER

Jeff Johnson

Developer, JLou Properties

Jeff Johnson has been quietly reshaping Oklahoma City's built environment for nearly two decades, project by project and neighborhood by neighborhood. As founder and CEO of JLou Properties — headquartered at 1 NE 7th Street, just steps from the Berry Rock Building site — Johnson has developed a portfolio that reads as a map of OKC's urban renaissance: Maywood Lofts in downtown, Eco Modern Flats in Norman, Campus Corner at the University of Oklahoma, The Vic in the Plaza District, Gatewood Flats, and The Residents in Midwest City, among others.

His approach centers on what he calls repositioning — finding underutilized properties and returning them to the life of the city. His long-standing board membership at Prism Bank, where he chairs the Loan Committee and serves on the Strategic Planning Committee, reflects the same instinct: understanding how capital and community intersect. For the Berry Rock Building, Johnson brings both institutional credibility and deep neighborhood knowledge to the project team. He knows the blocks around 616 N. Walnut Avenue not as an abstract development opportunity, but as a place he has watched, invested in, and believed in for years.

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Andy Burnett

Developer, Burnett Equity

Andy Burnett has brokered more than $1.2 billion in commercial real estate transactions — including the largest apartment portfolio sale in Oklahoma City history — but the work he is most invested in is harder to measure in dollars: the patient, complicated, block-by-block effort to remake the urban core of Oklahoma City and Tulsa from the inside out. As founder of Burnett Equity and Senior Vice President at Newmark Robinson Park, Burnett has assembled nearly a dozen downtown development projects, navigating public-private partnerships with the City of Oklahoma City, HUD, OCURA, and the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to bring development to corridors that conventional capital often overlooks.

A Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), a CoStar Power Broker, and an Oklahoma City Forty Under 40 honoree, Burnett holds a BBA in International Business from Oklahoma State University. His involvement in the Berry Rock Building reflects what has become a signature of his work: identifying the intersection where real estate fundamentals, civic vision, and community need converge — and building something there that lasts. For the Flatiron District, that intersection has a specific address: 616 N. Walnut Avenue.

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