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.
Nearly 1 million apartments are under construction across the U.S., and Dallas ranks No. 7 among the 50 largest metro areas in new-construction housing permits, according to a report released Tuesday. Dallas is No. 3 in Texas, according to the report, behind Austin and Houston. Almost 34,000 new apartments were added to the housing stock…
A landmark decision will likely be made on short-term rentals this year. It won’t be made by a neighborhood association or the Texas Legislature. It will be made by 15 men and women elected to the local Dallas City Council. These elected leaders also make decisions on zoning that affect what can be built next to…
There’s a lot of buzz in Texas about Public Facility Corporation projects, and it’s made its way to the state Capitol. Controversy surrounding the PFC financing structure, which incentivizes developers for providing affordable housing, has been praised as the only way to attain much-needed “missing middle” housing and simultaneously criticized for taking property off the…
An early-morning March 11 shooting in the 6400 block of Royal Lane between Preston and Hillcrest roads left an 11-year-old boy dead and a woman injured. A 30-year-old man was charged with capital murder. Less than two weeks prior, a jeweler was robbed at knifepoint and assaulted in a Galleria parking lot. Later on the…
A proposal last week to accept additional Community Development Block Grant funds evolved into a larger discussion of how those dollars can be used to spur alternative housing options and shelter the homeless. City leaders revealed Wednesday that an additional $15,967 is available to the City of Dallas in disaster recovery funds, adding to the…
