Newhall’s Antique Flower Garden Closes Its Doors

Newhall’s Antique Flower Garden has apparently closed its doors for good after being in business since 1992. The Antique Flower Garden offered unique flower arrangements, and was voted "Santa Clarita’s Best Florist" in 2007.

Customers who visited the Antique Flower Garden around Christmas said they were told that orders could not be filled because "they had no flowers". It seems the next day the doors were closed and locked for good, and the phones were disconnected.

The owners of the Antique Flower Garden store are not the owners of the historic jail building. Manny Santana, the owner of the building, has repeatedly expressed his fears that this unique historical building would be torn down as part of the Newhall Redevelopment project.

Manny feels very strongly that the old jail should be preserved where it stands. "I may be the owner of the old jail or as I like to think of it, the caretaker of it while I’m here on God’s green Earth. This jail is part of our town, our history and each and every one of us should be concerned about preserving Newhall’s history for ourselves as well as our children’s children," says Manny. 

The historic jail building that housed the Antique Flower Garden is just one of several buildings that are slated for "redevelopment" as part of the Old Town Newhall Redevelopment Project. It is expected that most of the other buildings in the Spruce Street area will eventually be torn down and then replaced with either a strip mall or a combined use building with some public uses (a possible library) and some commercial uses (office space and retail).