Mall operators Simon and Brookfield to acquire J.C. Penney stores
Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners have agreed to buy J.C. Penney, lawyers for the department store chain said in a bankruptcy court hearing on Wednesday.
The two mall owners will pay roughly $300 million in cash and assume $500 million in debt, The New York Times reports. With the sale, J.C. Penney, which the deal values at $1.75 billion, will avoid a liquidation.
At the hearing, lawyer Joshua Sussberg said J.C. Penney is now "in a position to do exactly what we set out to do at the very beginning of these cases and that is to preserve 70,000 jobs, a tenant for landlords, a vendor partner, and a company that has been around for more than a century." J.C. Penney filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, the biggest retailer to do so amid the pandemic.
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