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 City of Dallas has a new chief building official who acknowledges there’s a permitting mess to clean up and says he’s the man for the job. After nearly two years without a director and thousands of backlogged building permits, Andrew Espinoza was selected in May to become director of Development Services and officially began…
A team of experts at Brasfield & Gorrie construction engineering firm builds hospitals, offices, and data centers in the Dallas market and beyond, but every summer they embark on a project led by their hearts — constructing children’s playhouses for Dallas CASA. Michael Lewis, senior planner with Brasfield & Gorrie, said he got on board…
The Dallas City Council has until June 29 to make a decision on how the city’s 14 districts will be divided, and it appears they’re going to wait until the last minute. After making little headway in a June 8 session, the council is set to take a final vote on the matter during a…
Tom Rhodes taught his children at a very young age to tell the truth, value reputation, and put family first. Those principles and seven others became Rhodes Rules, the principles upon which their real estate group at Compass is built. The Rhodes Group includes Tom and three of his five children — Dan, Burton, and…
Father’s Day is pretty special for Cliff Freeman II and his son. On Father’s Day 27 years ago, Freeman II held his baby boy and namesake, whom he calls C3, in his arms for the first time. That young man grew up to be his friend and business partner. This Father’s Day weekend, Freeman II…
