J.C. Penney Rhode Island Stores Saved from Closure

While J.C. Penney prepares to close its East Brook Mall store in Mansfield in August, there are no plans to close stores in Rhode Island including those in Westerly, Warwick, and Providence.

In an e-mail earlier this month, Joey Thomas from the Media Relations and Corporate Affairs office of the J.C. Penney Communications Department stated, “there are currently no plans to close J.C. Penney locations in Rhode Island.”

The chain has a one-level 67,447-square-foot store in the Franklin Shopping Plaza Shopping Center in Westerly at 100 Franklin Street. 

In 2006, the chain opened a three-level 120,000-square-foot store in the Providence Place Mall replacing the former Lord and Taylor Department store.

J.C. Penney reopened its two-level 120,000-sqaure-foot Warwick Mall store in October 2010 after major renovations necessary when the mall was flooded by two feet of water from the Pawtuxet River caused by heavy rain earlier in March 2010. 

The department store has been an anchor to the mall since 1983. 

The chain also has no plans to close nine Connecticut stores including those in the Crystal Mall, Meriden Square Mall, West Farms Mall, Trumbull Square Mall, Danbury Square Mall, Brass Mill Center, Buckland Hills Mall, or Torrington Commons.