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.
Lately, Dallas residents have expressed strong feelings about how business is conducted in City Hall. Locals also have strong feelings about the building itself, an inverted pyramid structure designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei that opened in 1978. People who “aren’t from here” are prone to point out the unusual building. Native Dallasites and those…
No one was surprised this week when the Dallas City Council hired Kimberly Bizor Tolbert as the city manager. She’s already been on the job as interim for 11 months and has an impressive decades-long career in Dallas under her belt. She was widely supported by city staff and local business leaders. But there were…
A mostly vacant shopping center at Preston and Belt Line roads is not any closer to becoming a mixed-use development with up to 984 housing units, after yet another deferral by the City Plan Commission on Thursday. The Pepper Square project, proposed by developers with Henry S. Miller Co. was already recommended for approval by…
Home builder Danny Le appeared before the Dallas Board of Adjustment on Tuesday for the sixth time since August and was granted permission to finish out his three-story in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood even though it violates the City’s zoning regulations. The builder was told in November that he had to change the roof pitch…
The Dallas City Council extended an offer Wednesday to Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, who will become the first Black female to lead the ninth-largest city in America. Her salary is $450,000. Council members Cara Mendelsohn and Paul RIdley voted against it. Ridley expressed concerns about a “golden parachute” severance package in Tolbert’s contract amounting to $900,000 or…
