Timberview: Workforce Housing for the Choctaw Nation

A growing workforce in need of a place to live.

When the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma set its sights on expanding its hospitality footprint with the new Choctaw Landing Resort and Casino, the opportunity was clear — but so was the obstacle. The new destination would create hundreds of jobs in and around Broken Bow, a community whose housing supply was already stretched thin by tourism demand in nearby Hochatown and the broader Kiamichi Country region.

Recruiting and retaining the team members needed to run a world-class resort meant solving a more fundamental problem first: where would those workers live? The Nation needed attainable, high-quality workforce housing — and it needed a partner who could take the project from a blank sheet of paper to a leased-up community, quickly and responsibly.

A single platform, from napkin sketch to move-in day.

Riverstone was engaged to serve as the Nation's full-lifecycle platform partner on Timberview — procuring the architect, structuring the general construction contract, managing construction, leading development, and shepherding the community all the way through lease-up. It's the kind of integrated role that only works when financing, design, and delivery are treated as a single coordinated discipline rather than three separate disputes.

From the earliest design charrettes, the team worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the Nation's leadership, Rosemann & Associates as the project architect, and Integrity Construction as general contractor, to align the program with both the Nation's mission and the realities of the site. The result was a thoughtfully designed 128-unit community of one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes that looks and lives like market-rate product, priced to remain within reach of the families it was built to serve.

Creative financing. Disciplined construction. A real community partnership.

Creative Financing & Development Structuring

Workforce housing rarely pencils on a conventional spreadsheet. Riverstone worked with the Nation to structure capital and ownership in a way that served the long-term mission — prioritizing mission-aligned stewardship over short-term yield. That structure made it possible to hold rents down without compromising the construction budget.

Construction & Delivery

On the ground, Riverstone led construction management from site work through turnover. When the team encountered a subgrade moisture condition during early earthwork — the kind of surprise that can derail a project's schedule and budget — the platform's integrated structure allowed for a quick, coordinated response across the architect, civil engineer, and GC. The first building still opened on schedule, ahead of the new casino's grand opening.

Community Partnerships

Timberview only works because of the partnership at its center. Riverstone's role was to align a broad coalition — the Choctaw Nation's leadership and housing authority, the casino's HR and workforce planners, Rosemann & Associates (architecture), Integrity Construction (GC), Pearson Kent McKinley Raaf (MEP/structural), Landworks Studio (landscape), and Barker & Associates (civil) — around a single, shared definition of success.

A community that opened its doors on time — and changed the math for an entire region.

Today, Timberview is open and leasing. Families, casino team members, and tribal members are moving into homes they can afford in a community that was designed around them. The Nation has a durable, long-term asset; the workforce has a stable place to land; and Broken Bow has 128 more reasons to call itself a town on the rise.

For Riverstone, Timberview is a clear articulation of what the platform was built to do: bring patient capital, thoughtful design, and disciplined delivery together in service of communities that are often overlooked.