This year's Super Bowl will be the first without longtime ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen—a network fixture who died on March 3 of throat cancer. However, the longtime journalist is not forgotten.

Perla has lived all over California. She was born and raised in Orange County, went to UC Berkeley for her bachelor's, and worked in Bakersfield for her first job as a multimedia journalist.

Mortenson has wrapped up a RiNo development that was personal. The Minneapolis-based construction firm completed a four-story, 65,000-square-foot office building at 3083 Walnut St. in RiNo late last ...