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.
The matter of rezoning the Preston Center West shopping center to allow for a high-rise office building and apartment complex is set for the Dallas City Plan Commission’s Thursday, March 21, agenda. The development proposal — which drew criticism from former District 13 Plan Commissioner Claire Stanard — was set for a CPC agenda two…
Builders of Hope Community Development Corporation is branching out with a new affordable housing project that aims to allow legacy residents and low-to-middle-income buyers stay close to their jobs in Farmers Branch. The Porches at Valwood Park is a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) project where Builders of Hope will construct new homes on empty…
What does one do with a dilapidated Lake Highlands office building in an area where empty nesters are demanding more homes for sale? They tear it down and build some homes. A zoning application filed earlier this month revealed that Dallas-based The Javelin Group LLC is requesting to rezone 10405 East Northwest Highway, currently developed…
We like to go big in Texas, but when it comes to tiny homes, the Lone Star State is also an industry leader. A study released last month by Architectural Digest shows that Texas is No. 2 in its offerings of luxury and non-luxury tiny homes, trailing California. Luxury tiny homes are perfect for those…
A southern Dallas megachurch scored a huge victory in late February when Stonelake Capital Partners withdrew its plans to build an industrial warehouse on Wheatland Road. Leaders of Friendship-West Baptist Church said the project represented environmental racism and would be detrimental to the neighbors and parishioners. Although Stonelake already had the proper zoning for a…
