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JCPenney: Here, Going, Gone! - Riverdale - Coon Rapids, MN

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October 18, 2020. The final day of business for the JCPenney at Riverdale in Coon Rapids, MN. The 93,000 square foot store opened in 2002, and was one of the featured anchors at the Riverdale Shopping Center. Now Riverdale would be down it's second key anchor in the past five years. An even larger Sears store, on the north side, closed in 2017. Although that Sears is currently being renovated into a Schneiderman’s Furniture. Nameplate on a JC Penney red shopping cart. I spent way too much time leaning on one of these, when I was dragged along with Laura's last minute X-Mess shopping, less than a year ago today... October 24, 2020. Front of the closed JCPenney store, on the north side, six days after it was last open. I drove by on my way home from running some Aarons, to see if anything was going on here. There wasn’t, but the JCPenney sign had already been removed from the exterior walls.  October 24, 2021 Exactly one year to the date of my last pictures of JCPenney. I did not