The 39 JC Penney units at the following locations will shut down this year:
Desert Sky Mall, Phoenix, Ariz.
South Shore Center, Alameda, Calif.
Buena Park Center, Buena Park, Calif.
Capitola Mall, Capitola, Calif.
Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, Calif.
Westlake Shopping Center, Daly City, Calif.
Enfield Square, Enfield, Conn.
North Haven Shopping Center, North Haven, Conn.
Overseas Market, Key West, Fla.
Belmont Hills Center, Smyrna, Ga.
Shannon Mall, Union City, Ga.
Market Place Mall, Champaign, Ill.
Lincoln Mall, Matteson, Ill.
North Park Mall, Villa Park, Ill.
Ruston Center, Ruston, La.
South Park Mall, Shreveport, La.
Montgomery Mall, Bethesda, Md.
Eastland Shopping Center, Harper Woods, Mich.
Northland Shopping Center, Southfield, Mich.
Thunderbird Mall, Virginia, Minn.
Clarksdale, Miss.
Bannister Mall, Kansas City, Mo.
Glasgow, Mont.
Miles City, Mont.
Valley Plaza Shopping Center, Fallon, Nev.
Valley View Shopping Center, Winnemucca, Nev.
Carlsbad Mall, Carlsbad, Calif.
Tri-City Mall, Forest City, N.C.
Penney Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio
Catalog outlet store, Groesbeck, Ohio
Randall Park Mall, North Randall, Ohio
Chickasha Square Mall, Chickasha, Okla.
Lancaster Square, Lancaster, S.C.
Oaks Tower, Nashville, Tenn.
Northwest Shopping Center, Houston, Tex.
Landmark Shopping Center, Alexandria, Va.
Ballston Common, Arlington, Va.
Yakima Mall, Yakima, Wash.
Northridge Shopping Center, Milwaukee, Wis.
In other news, Frank Newman, the chief executive of JC Penney's Eckerd drugstore chain, which will close 289 stores this year, resigned his post to become the head of an Internet retail company, more.com. John E. Fesperman, a member of Penney's executive committee, will temporarily replace Newman.