Buffalo stores spared as J.C. Penney targets 7 New York state for closure

Two J.C. Penney stores in the western region of Upstate New York are among the 154 nationwide slated to close this summer by the financially ailing retailer. The stores are anchor locations in the Batavia City Center plaza and Canandaigua’s Roseland Shopping Center. Spared, for now, are J.C. Penney anchor stores at the Boulevard Mall in Amherst, Clarence’s Eastern Hills Mall, the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga and McKinley Mall in Hamburg. In all seven J.C. Penney stores across New York state…