Patch Watch: Anti-Semitic Graffiti at Los Gatos Rinconada Shopping Center

The east side of the Rinconada Shopping Center, 1500 Pollard Rd., has been graffitied by vandals with a black marker and red ink.

Most disturbing is anti-Semitic graffiti that has been spray-painted on center's back wall with the words, "Juden."

The complex, whose anchor business is the supermarket, contains more than 20 small businesses, including a Bank of America branch on the east side, near where some of the vandalism has occurred.

According to center employees, the graffiti has gone unclean for at least a month and fresh silver paint had been applied to certain markings.

LOCATION: East side of Rinconada Hills Center, 1500 Pollard Road.

PROBLEM: Graffiti has been spray-painted on several doors, walls.

RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES: Sign in front of center says the Meacham Oppenheimer Inc. commercial brokerage development corporation is the contact for retail space for lease at the center. It lists the number 408-378-5900 and Ryan Warner as the contact.

DATE REPORTED: May 14, 2012

DAYS ON WATCH: 2

About this column: Patch Watch is our weekly look at some of the blight and problem areas in and around the Town of Los Gatos. Please report ugly and neglected town spots to Editor Sheila Sanchez at sheila.sanchez@patch.com.