Vandals Target Acorn Alley, Corner Developments
More than $700 in damage reported to police
Vandals caused more than $700 in damage over the Labor Day holiday weekend at one of downtown Kent's newest redevelopment projects.
Phoenix Properties reported to Kent Police on Sept. 3 that someone had broken the bulbs on a string of black LED rope lights that decorate the popular Acorn Alley redevelopment off East Main Street.
The damage to the broken globes was estimated at $667.
Just a few hundred feet east Genghis Properties, LLC, reported a door had been broken off its hinges at 180 E. Main St., otherwise known as Acorn Corner or the old Kent hotel.
The damage to the Acorn Corner building, which is undergoing a several million dolllar renovation, was estimated at $50. Nothing was reported stolen from the building.
It's not the first time the redevelopment has been targeted by criminals.
In May, several downtown businesses were robbed, including tenants of Acorn Alley.
And in November an office on the upper floor of Acorn Alley was robbed.
Pat
3:37 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Also the West River Building had a rock thrown thru the window on Gougler side of the building-Sunday night. The Kent Police need to start walking the beat and patroling better than sitting in their "old station" wishing they had a nice new building!
Myron Holley
7:41 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Arm them and just shoot the vandals and robbers. Normaly its just a couple if people doing it. By the time the police get there. The ones doing the problems is long gone. . nuf said.
Myron Holley
7:42 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
typo if should be not there. couple people doing it.