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 Dallas City Council members were ready last month to take a vote once and for all on whether short-term rental homes could continue operating within residential neighborhoods. It didn’t happen. In fact, the council gave city staff a lot more work to do, prompting City Manager T.C. Broadnax to suggest that staff prepare another…
Builders rejoiced in January when the Dallas Development Services Department reported that it was caught up on permits and didn’t have anything in the queue older than 15 days. There’s little doubt things have improved since Andrew Espinoza took over as chief building inspector last year, but not everyone is satisfied with the speed of…
Years after the City of Dallas purchased the 35,000-square-foot Miramar Hotel, officials are moving forward with a plan to redevelop the property into permanent supportive housing for the homeless. The city acquired the hotel at 1950 Fort Worth Ave. in 2020 and has eligible grant funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to cover $3.6…
Many residents who live along the Garland Road corridor and near White Rock Lake in Dallas City Council District 9 have lived there for decades and love their neighborhoods. They host neighborhood block parties and are thoroughly engaged in local zoning and development matters. They don’t talk a lot about crime, and for good reason:…
Brilliance was filtering through the air like sunlight from the windows on Thursday, April 27, for the Spring Market Refresh event hosted by CandysDirt.com and Johnson Development’s Trinity Falls, the 2,000-acre master-planned community in McKinney. An all-star expert panel included George Bass, owner and interior designer of George Bass Stage and Design; JPAR Realtor Marisol…
