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.
We could regale you with a few of the fun quotes about front-yard setbacks and terracotta roof tiles that we heard at the 18th — yes, 18th — community meeting on the Lakewood Conservation District expansion. But all you really need to know at this point is that the Lakewood ordinance is finally going before…
A nonprofit faith-based organization wants to build an apartment complex that would provide shelter to up to 300 senior citizens in Southlake — but residents near the 21-acre site on Davis Boulevard are balking at the high-density proposal. The matter is set to go before the Southlake Planning and Zoning Commission on Nov. 7. Southlake…
District Judge Martin Hoffman heard testimony Friday morning from residents who claim that proper notice was not given by developers with the Henry S. Miller Company regarding the Pepper Square mixed-use development — but a decision was delayed until 1:30 p.m. Nov. 8. The Pepper Square development at Preston and Belt Line roads calls for…
A district judge is expected to rule Friday on whether to uphold a temporary restraining order that blocked the Dallas City Council from voting last week on the controversial Pepper Square rezoning The Pepper Square development, proposed by Henry S. Miller Company, calls for a mixed-use development at Preston and Belt Line Roads with a…
The Cabana Hotel has earned its spot in Dallas folklore. The Beatles and Led Zeppelin crashed there. Raquel Welch worked as a cocktail waitress there. It was modeled after Caesar’s Palace and did a little hard time as a county jail. And now, Dallas’ historic Cabana Hotel will be redeveloped into affordable apartments. Developer Zach…
