ROSEBURG, Ore. — As of Thursday evening, signs on the front of the Roseburg location of JCPenney tell customers that the store is temporarily closed.
If the company’s restructuring plan is approved in U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week, this JCPenney store at the Garden Valley Mall would be one of four in Oregon as well as one of 154 stores nationwide to close permanently.
The news was announced Thursday on the company’s blog. Stores in Bend, McMinnville and Salem would also close as part of what the company describes as its store optimization strategy. No stores in Washington have been slated to close. There are two JCPenney stores in Vancouver.
The plan would shutter half of JCPenney’s eight Oregon stores, leaving locations in Eugene, Happy Valley, Medford and Portland, according to the company’s website.
