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 briefing on Public Facility Corporation housing projects — what they are and what merit they bring to Dallas — is tentatively slated for June, and affordable housing developers are already building a case to support what they say is a valuable and necessary funding mechanism for missing middle housing. Larkspur Capital development associate Cole…
As of early Wednesday afternoon, more than 126,800 Dallas residents were without power, and officials said mutual aid is coming from seven other states to ensure electricity is restored swiftly. About 7,500 personnel are working on Dallas storm damage relief efforts, and that number will increase in the coming days according to an Oncor representative. Dallas…
A Dallas native who owns a 100-year-old fourplex in Oak Lawn is claiming that a memory care facility next to her property is blowing toxic chemicals into the homes of her tenants and her protests to the City of Dallas Development Services Department have gone unanswered. The 12-story property at 4215 Herschel Ave., operated by…
Following a months-long search, an internal candidate was named Dallas’ director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization on Thursday. Longtime city employee Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson has served as the interim director since David Noguera submitted his resignation in September. Noguera left the City of Dallas to work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in…
The ballots are counted and a project list totaling $1.25 billion now sits on the desk of Dallas Bond and Construction Management Director Jenny Nicewander. There are more than 800 bond projects that mean a lot to the voters who approved them and their elected council members — and everyone wants their project to go…
