Salt Lake buys blighted motel, seeks affordable housing plan

SALT LAKE CITY — In a surprise move this week, the Salt Lake City Council voted to spend $4 million on a blighted motel on North Temple.
The decision Tuesday to buy the Overniter Motel at 1500 W. North Temple came out of the council's reluctance to OK a $4 million loan to Western Region Nonprofit Housing Corp., which planned to develop the property into a project for mixed incomes, but mostly affordable housing.
The motel has a troubled past, with "high crime rates, physical deterioration