(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Ramada on North Temple, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. The building was used as an overflow shelter last winter. Now, city officials want to give a developer $2 million to help convert it into permanent supportive housing.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.