April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
Some might be surprised to learn that the ninth-largest U.S. city doesn’t have a person solely responsible for recruiting new development. That’s about to change as the Dallas Economic Development Corporation is advertising a position for its first-ever CEO. Dallas does have an Economic Development Department with a council-approved policy and Director Robin Bentley leading…
When Texas lawmakers announced in August that the House and Senate finally reached an agreement on the largest property tax cut in Texas history — to the tune of $18 billion — residents of the Lone Star State weren’t quite ready to do a victory dance. Perhaps that’s because they knew they’d still have to…
A “city within a city” in Deep Ellum, housing atop fire stations, and libraries combined with recreation centers were among the ideas kicked around during a Sept. 19 meeting of the Dallas City Council’s Government Performance and Financial Management Committee. Councilman Chad West, who chairs the GPFM Committee, recently brought up during budget discussions that…
The Dallas Short-Term Rental Alliance announced Monday the hire of “top litigation firm” Lynn Pinker Hurst Schwegmann to sue the City of Dallas, seeking an injunction allowing short-term rentals to continue operating throughout the city limits. The Dallas City Council banned short-term rentals from residential neighborhoods in June and vowed to begin enforcing the new…
The Standard Shoreline multifamily project attracted a lot of attention back in 2022 when it became one of the first proposals to be approved under the Dallas Public Facility Corporation financing structure. Residents in East Dallas’ Lochwood Neighborhood Association raised concerns about what they called a 75-year tax break. They were worried that the 60-foot…
