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.
Texas Department of Transportation officials were back at Dallas City Hall on Wednesday, giving a progress report on the Interstate 345 plan approved by council members in May 2023. We reported in March of this year that TxDOT rebuffed the council’s mandate to seek alternative funding sources and designs for the $1.65 billion project, instead…
After a state representative scolded city staff and council last week for sitting on a $20 million Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grant that’ll expire in a few months, Dallas Park and Recreation Director John Jenkins defended his department and his commitment to the southern sector. House District 111 Rep. Yvonne Davis spoke during the…
Nearly 200,000 people took to Fair Park last weekend, where the University of Texas claimed victory over Oklahoma University, but there’s a dark shadow over what many call “the people’s park.” A week after the Dallas Morning News broke the story, the City still doesn’t know why Fair Park leaders can’t explain a $5.7 million…
Does James Armstrong ever sleep? The man with a plan for “quality attainable housing” in underserved pockets of poverty is at it again, this time delivering 36 mixed-income units at Trinity West Villas At an Oct. 1 groundbreaking ceremony, Armstrong, CEO of Builders of Hope Community Development Corp., highlighted the need for affordable housing and…
The 22-story boutique Hotel Swexan at the corner of McKinnon and Moody streets was recently awarded $8.5 million from the Dallas Property Assessed Clean Energy program. This is the second clean energy grant for the Hotel Swexan, the city’s first boutique hotel developed by Harwood International. The moniker represents “Swiss hospitality meets Texan charm,” an…
