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.
Creating infrastructure for housing and commercial development, and providing fast and simple tax abatements to incentivize businesses emerged as priorities during a Dallas City Council discussion on the city’s economic development policy last week. The city council is set to adopt revisions to the 2021 economic development policy at a Dec. 14 meeting. This year…
All eyes were on the Dallas City Plan Commission this week as the panel voted to define short-term rentals as a lodging use, thus banning the properties from single-family residential neighborhoods. Plan commissioners, who made the decision in a 10-4 vote following a nine-hour public hearing, said they didn’t take the matter lightly. Some said…
Members of the Dallas City Plan Commission decided in a split vote Thursday to define short-term rentals as a lodging use and limit them to areas where such uses are allowed, thereby prohibiting short-term rentals from residential areas. Over the course of the nine-hour meeting, there was talk of enforcing regulations against “bad actors,” allowing…
The trees are up, the lights are illuminated, and maybe there’s even a present or two wrapped. Holiday house hunters are on the prowl this weekend and there are tons of great listings on the market. This weekend, we’re unwrapping three amazing Dallas open houses that lend themselves to holiday entertaining. These homes feature overstated…
The housing stock in Dallas is poised to increase to the tune of 210 luxury condominiums at Seventh Street and Zang Boulevard. When Alamo Manhattan developers Matt Segrest and Wade Johns embarked on the Victor Prosper project in 2015, it looked like an uphill battle that might not end well. The developers were patient and…
