Downtown is all about lingering.
Mike Freedman's words, not mine. Though I wish they'd been. Freedman is point man for Freedman, Tung and Bottomley, the urban design firm our city hired to create a plan to revive downtown Newhall. Three hundred shopkeepers, property owners, community activists packed the town hall last month to hear how Freedman would resurrect Old Newhall out of the hodgepodge of nothingness that San Fernando Road has become. That in itself was quite an accomplishment.