An aerial shot of Olbrich, during an ‘After Hours’ concert, top right, in the summer of 2025.
Olbrich Botanical Garden’s visitor center, built in the 1970s, was originally designed to handle 150,000 visitors annually. Today, attendance is double that.
Tanya Zastrow, director of the gardens, tells Isthmus the decades-old building can no longer keep pace with record attendance rates — a key factor prompting Olbrich’s new master planning process, which will guide expansion plans for the garden over the next two decades…