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 Dallas City Council is taking the month of July off, but rest assured that staff and appointed boards and commissions are getting stuff done. The Comprehensive Land Use Plan Committee met last week to discuss the next steps for ForwardDallas, the document that will guide what and how future development occurs within the city limits. …
Most Dallasites agree that White Rock Lake Park is a regional treasure. Now they want to get it in writing and plan for the future. A meeting is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 18, at Winfrey Point (950 E. Lawther Drive) to provide input on the White Rock Lake Park Master Plan and hear…
Bridge Labs is expanding downtown Dallas’ biotech operations in a 23-acre mixed-use office campus known as Pegasus Park. The Dallas City Council touted its commitment to biomedical and health research during a June 14 council meeting by awarding a $3 million economic development grant, along with about $5 million in other incentives. The funds will…
If you’d just started using City of Dallas online dashboards last week, you might not even know the ninth-largest city in the U.S. was hacked by cyberterrorists in May. The City Council voted June 28 to spend nearly $4 million with Houston-based Netsync Network Solutions to install and maintain a “threat and anomaly detection system”…
Affordable housing just got a little more accessible in Grand Prairie — or really anywhere a plot of land is available. HiFAB hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning at its modular home factory, featuring turnkey homes designed by award-winning Texas architecture firm Lake | Flato. HiFAB builds single-family modular homes and aims to produce high-design…
