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 Dallasites have been waiting five years for the City’s parking code to be overhauled, so what’s another month or two, right? The City Plan Commission last week heard from 21 residents — all but two of whom voiced support for eliminating minimum parking requirements for new development — and determined they’d take up the…
When Valerie Taylor, her husband Gray Cato, and pup Nala moved into their North Montclair Avenue home in May 2022, neighbors were already hitting them up to join the Winnetka Heights Holiday Home Tour. Taylor asked for a little patience — something most of us are lacking in these winter months — and said, “Wait…
The Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday on changes to a development agreement with Hoque Global for the University Hills catalyst project, which could bring hundreds of new homes to a 279-acre site near the University of North Texas at Dallas. Developer Mike Hoque’s plan for phase one calls for up to 571 homes on…
About one month after a judge ordered developers with Henry S. Miller Company to re-advertise a mixed-use project at Preston and Belt Line roads, the Pepper Square project was back before the Dallas Plan Commission Thursday — and again deferred, this time to Jan. 23. Neighbors have loudly opposed the project since its inception more…
Editor’s Note: The Dallas City Council approved a $49 million subsidy for the West End Lofts project on Dec. 11. Three downtown Dallas properties are poised for redevelopment into a “transformative” mixed-use, mixed-income, and transportation-oriented development near the West End light rail Dallas Area Rapid Transit station. Sycamore Strategies developer Zach Krochtengel is the man…
