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.
It’s back to the drawing board for the Dallas Park and Recreation Department and council-appointed advisory board as they shuffle projects in anticipation of a bond issue in May or November. At least one project — an addition to the Dallas skate parks lineup near the Glencoe Park neighborhood — is off the table, board…
The Dallas Comprehensive Land Use Plan Committee spent six hours during a workshop Jan. 9 reviewing the draft ForwardDallas plan line by line. While the committee cleaned up clunky language and typographical errors — and had some intense discussions on things like housing density — what may have been most revealing were the public comments…
The projects slated for a 2024 Dallas bond election are nowhere close to being finalized, but the latest memorandum from Assistant City Manager Robert Perez suggests what can be done with a baseline starting point of $60 million for housing. A $60 million housing bond, if approved, would fund six multifamily housing projects for a…
In a December meeting of the Dallas Mayor’s Ad Hoc Committee on Pensions, a new solution to the Dallas Police And Fire Pension fund’s $3 billion deficit was suggested: monetize the city’s real estate assets. It’s one of numerous ideas that has been floated since the deficit came to light in 2015. Other suggestions include…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently sold a majority stake in his professional hoops team to the Dumont and Adelson families. The prominent casino magnates and owners of Las Vegas Sands Corp. purchased 100 acres northeast of the demolished Texas Stadium in Irving last July. It doesn’t take Woodward and Bernstein to crack this case. …
