U.S. federal judge Barefoot Sanders, involved in desegregating DISD, supported the plan.

[3] An economic downturn in 1987 stymied a DISD real estate scheme to sell Crozier Tech High School, and this in turn prevented the originally planned summer 1987 opening for Townview.

[2] In 1992 Sanders allowed the district to scale back its plans for Townview,[4] but he also ordered it to be completed by 1995.

[3] Laura Miller, then writing for the Dallas Observer, stated that there was a lot of buildup in regards to Townview helping solve racial segregation issues in DISD, and also that there was a sense of sacrifice from landowners in Oak Cliff, many of whom were low income and elderly, who gave up their land for Townview.

The School of Business and Management has a bank, radio station and other student activities.