Buffalo Bayou East will transform East End. Why affordable housing is the first step.

An ambitious $310 million transformation of the eastern side of Buffalo Bayou gets underway this week as Buffalo Bayou Partnership -- which developed the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive -- breaks ground on the first piece of its decade-long plan to transform the stretch of the bayou east of downtown.But the groundbreaking isn't for a project normally associated with parks and trails, for which the Buffalo Bayou Partnership is best known. The partnership on Saturday will begin the construction of an affordable housing development, called Lockwood on Buffalo Bayou. In this episode of Looped In, Rebecca Schuetz interviews Buffalo Bayou Partnership's president Anne Olson about the nonprofit's transformative plan and talks with Marissa Luck about the broader changes taking place in the East End. Read more: Buffalo Bayou East breaks ground with affordable housing project. Kinder Foundation gives $100 million to fast track Buffalo Bayou East. Concept Neighborhood’s 17-acre East End project could make cars obsolete with walkable, ‘micro’ living Midway’s non-fussy take on golf gives Houstonians first glimpse of game-changing East End project. Triten Partners’ trendy 6-acre mixed-use project could transform key entrance to East End After years of attempts, redevelopment of former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital begins More on Community Land Trusts in Houston Whether Fifth Ward residents want it or not, East River is coming Support the show: https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices