On a sunless Wednesday morning, a few cars drive up and down Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. Just along the stretch, facing the road, is a motel with a dozen or so cars sprinkled through the main parking lot.
The building has three floors and is painted royal blue with a strip of white on the second level. Solid black railings line each of the floors, as a towering white and blue sign reads “Live In Lodge.”
This extended stay motel is now the temporary home for Carolyn Huitt and her family. Huitt is a former tenant of the now-condemned Chelsea Gardens apartments in College Park.
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