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.
The annual Downtown Dallas Inc. State of Downtown event is typically a pep rally for the momentum around the city’s business district, but this year’s gathering was a chance to hear from local leaders on a topic at the forefront of everyone’s minds these days: affordable housing. City Manager T.C. Broadnax, Housing Forward chairman Peter…
The Dallas City Council approved Wednesday $41 million in tax increment financing funds for the redevelopment of the former Cabana Hotel into mixed-income housing. Developer Zach Krochtengel with Cabana Sycamore Development Inc. requested the Tax Increment Financing funds to boost a $116 million redevelopment project on 3.27 acres at 899 North Stemmons Freeway. The former…
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Every week there’s a new horror story of someone saying they were lured by a promising home sale, but the seller wasn’t available for a phone call or to meet on-site. “Just wire the money” ought to be a huge red flag, but in…
Formerly homeless veterans have been living in a nine-unit group home complex in North Oak Cliff for eight years, but there’s a problem: the home isn’t zoned for such a use. Dallas City Plan Commissioners on Thursday sought a compromise with the home’s operator, Phillip Mitchell, who offered to deed-restrict the property so it can’t…
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday he’s changing his political party affiliation and will be voting in the Republican primary next spring. But the office of mayor — as well as city council members — are nonpartisan elected officials. So what is Johnson really trying to say? It almost definitely means a bid for higher office.…
