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.
A 250-acre West Dallas park will be in “full-blown construction” by this time next year, officials with the Trinity Park Conservancy told a crowd of supporters Thursday evening. Tony Moore, president and CEO of the Trinity Park Conservancy, reviewed the $325 million Harold Simmons Park project, which is expected to fulfill a decades-old vision to…
Members of the Dallas Short-Term Rental Alliance and the City of Dallas have been embroiled in a legal battle that was supposed to come to a head Monday in a non-jury trial, but officials involved in the matter say it has been delayed. Lisa Sievers, a spokeswoman for the Dallas STRA, told CandysDirt.com that operators…
The City of Dallas has spent almost four years trying to repurpose a vacant motel into permanent supportive housing, and with a new architect on board and a permit pending City Council approval, it looks like it might finally happen. Not everyone is happy about it. The City Plan Commission recommended approval of a specific…
More than 5,600 emails were scanned this month in an effort to determine whether Dallas Development Services employees were concerned for their safety while working at the Stemmons Building that had numerous fire code violations. The investigation resulted in just five emails from employees who used keywords to describe conditions at the Stemmons Freeway building,…
Thousands of unhoused people have turned Dallas streets into waiting rooms, and city officials said last week they’re willing to try a pilot program that employs public-private partnerships to bring housing alternatives to the homeless. Christine Crossley, director of the Dallas Office of Homeless Solutions, presented information about industrialized housing, pallet homes, and retrofitted shipping…
