{"id":382532,"date":"2026-07-22T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:47:09","slug":"jcpenney-to-close-its-doors-in-north-texas-mall-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382532\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPenney to close its doors in North Texas mall in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcpenney.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JCPenney <\/a>plans to shutter a store in North Texas later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Plano retailer will close its doors at Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth on Nov. 1, according to a statement from the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegretfully, we are unable to continue our current lease terms for this store location and have been unable to find another suitable location in the market,\u201d the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department store chain, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2025\/01\/09\/jcpenney-merging-with-aeropostale-nautica-operator-to-form-a-new-company-based-in-plano\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">part of Catalyst Brands<\/a> after a merger, is navigating a dynamic retail environment that has squeezed others in the industry amid shifting consumer tastes and the rise of online shopping. Neiman Marcus, now part of Exemplar Luxury Group, is planning to close sites in Plano and downtown Dallas after its parent company emerged from a recent bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>JCPenney \u2014 while pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2026\/02\/27\/jcpenneys-woman-on-top-this-is-so-important-to-retail-and-to-america\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">efforts to draw customers<\/a> \u2014 reported net sales declined more than 4% in the fiscal quarter ending May 2 from the year ago, a filing shows. Net losses narrowed.<\/p>\n<p>The company has several other sites throughout the North Texas area, including Denton,\u00a0Frisco, Flower Mound and Rockwall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to our dedicated associates and the loyal customers who have shopped at our Fort Worth location through the years,\u201d the company said. \u201cWe hope to continue serving them at our other Dallas-Fort Worth locations and online.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JCPenney plans to shutter a store in North Texas later this year.\u00a0 The\u00a0Plano retailer will close its doors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96022,116,118,117,952,115277,88643],"class_list":["post-382532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-business-retail","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-retail","tag-tp-dying-malls","tag-tp-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}