Houston Maritime Center & Museum

Join us for our monthly lecture series Maritime Monday featuring an engaging conversation with a Anne Olson, President of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Anne Olson is President of Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP), an organization creating and stewarding parks, trails, and unique spaces along Houston’s historic waterway. Over the past 30 years, Anne and the BBP board have raised and leveraged over $400 million in private and public funds for the waterway’s transformation. During her tenure, she and her team have produced several award-winning master plans, and developed a comprehensive enhancement program that includes land acquisition, trail and park development, green space and waterway maintenance initiatives, public art, and programming. With catalyst gifts from Houston’s Kinder Foundation, BBP transformed the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park and is currently leading a $310 million redevelopment effort for the bayou east of downtown. Under Anne’s leadership, BBP has received numerous national, state and local awards including the American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Award of Excellence: The America’s Finalist, and ULI Houston’s 2024 Inaugural Moonshot Award that honors “groundbreaking development ideas associated with transformational change.” Anne is a Senior Fellow of Houston’s American Leadership Forum, and has served as […]