SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Since 2017, Guildhouse has been an leisure vacation spot for players in downtown San Jose.
But it surely’s additionally been a sizzling spot for crime. There have been 8 break-ins since they’ve opened and three this 12 months.
The newest has founder Kevin Wick at a breaking level.
“It is a larger downside than it ought to be,” Wick mentioned. “And the rationale we’re speaking about it now, previously we have all the time stored it underneath wraps however that wasn’t working.”
The occasion on March 26 was completely different than earlier than.
Simply after closing down for the evening, house owners say burglars minimize a gap by the again door of the Guildhouse.
Surveillance footage captured them stealing their secure.
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Co-owner David Faria says the thieves evaded safety put in place after earlier break-ins, together with a movement sensor on the door that was minimize open.
“Because the sensor solely will get out right here, it would not get straight underneath the door,” Faria mentioned. “They had been underneath it and so they went straight into our storage room and into our workplace.”
“Each time we have had a break-in, we have elevated our cameras, we have elevated our closing procedures, we have elevated our locks and it is simply not serving to,” Wick mentioned.
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Moreover the lack of stolen items, it prices to restore harm and beef up safety – someplace within the ballpark of $50,000.
“We’re a small enterprise,” Wick mentioned. “Small companies function on very skinny margins and this is only one extra hit that we did not need to take.”
Theft has been a significant downside within the SOFA neighborhood.
Wick says Tutorial Espresso, Unique Joes and Touchstone Climbing have all been burglarized this 12 months.
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Metropolis leaders met with Guildhouse house owners Friday afternoon in an try to sort out the issue.
“We will proceed to push onerous to correctly employees our police division,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan mentioned. “I will proceed to advocate for the remainder of the system to carry folks accountable, significantly when they’re repeat offenders, as we now have talked about earlier than. And we are going to proceed to lean into know-how just like the Crime Seize Program.”
After repeated makes an attempt to cease the issue on their very own, the house owners hope something could make a distinction.
“We’re not going to surrender and we’re not going to shut our enterprise down,” Faria mentioned.
“Not as a result of we need to make it really feel like San Jose just isn’t a secure place to run a enterprise, however as a result of we need to make it higher.” Wick mentioned.
Police say they’ve made arrests in different break-ins at Guildhouse, however the newest theft is underneath investigation.
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