My hometown of Haltom City is a comeback story — from a growing new city to a period of average growth to booming.
When my parents grew up in Haltom City in the ’60s it was not a whole lot different from when I grew up there in the ’80s. Streets were filled with kids riding bikes to the local corner store or the closest park. Like much of the metroplex, things started changing as growth began all around. Haltom City struggled to find its place and adjust to the economic development boom. Growth and development seemed to be happening to every city around us.
As a second-generation graduate of Haltom High School, my story was a lot like the city’s. Things were happening all around me and I was just getting by. That’s when I decided I wanted to make a change and started my own insurance agency, Troy Dunn Insurance Group, in 2013…