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.
Pending some discussion with Dallas City Council members and stakeholders, local officials are poised to lobby the U.S. Congress to add blight remediation to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, improve the Point-in-Time homeless count procedures, and add funding to federal grant programs. Director of Government Affairs Carrie Rogers was prepared to discuss the…
Fifty percent of the Dallas Department of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization’s annual funding will go toward “equity strategy target areas,” City Council members agreed Wednesday. Upgrades to the city’s development program have been strategized and briefed at the committee level since November, and Housing Director Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson’s proposal received unanimous support. The three equity target…
Local leaders are investing dollars and labor into a former Methodist church in the underserved Mill City neighborhood southeast of Fair Park. Members of the Real Estate Council’s professional development program plan to renovate the former St. Luke Community United Methodist Church building into a permanent home for the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach…
Dallas voters made it clear at the polls in May that they want continued investment in city parks. Elected and appointed leaders have been saying the same for years, and the private sector is following suit, as a massive philanthropic donation for Southern Gateway Park was announced Monday. The $82 million, 5.5-acre Southern Gateway project…
If you’ve been to a Dallas City Council meeting in the past year, you’ve heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold talk about the food desert in southern Dallas. You’ve heard her say that she has to take dignitaries to the International House of Pancakes for business meetings. You’ve heard her say that the…
