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.
An architect’s dream in Dallas, a new build in Farmer’s Branch, and a spacious five-bedroom in Plano are among the Dallas-Fort Worth open houses this weekend. Each is shy of $1 million and has its own unique characteristics sure to lure potential buyers to take a closer look. Which of these CandysDirt.com Open Houses of The…
Following an exhaustive public input and review process, officials with the Dallas Redistricting Commission have narrowed their scope to two preferred maps – and the one that makes the final cut could dictate boundary lines for the city’s 14 districts over the next decade. The final map selection is tentatively set for a day-long workshop…
Dallas Realtor Mitra Shamsa immigrated from Iran, sold shoes at the mall, and took a real estate exam – hard work and hustle so she could treasure Sunday evenings with her beloved family. Now daughter Mina has joined the family business, and the mother-daughter duo spends every day side by side. Mina Shamsa got her…
Six unique homes will be featured in this year’s Dallas Builders Association Parade of Homes, which benefits a nonprofit that builds custom, mortgage-free homes for combat-wounded U.S. military veterans. Addresses for the dwellings on parade will be emailed to ticketholders a few days prior to the May 7 event. They are in Briarwood, Midway Hollow,…
It might be a gamble to join your mother — or your daughter — in the family business, but Helen Johnson and daughter Tiffany Johnson Beecham do it like it’s nobody’s business. “I have three daughters and we have all been very close throughout the years,” Johnson said. “There’s never a dull moment, and we’re…
