U.S. mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners are close to finalizing an $800-million deal to rescue the embattled department store chain JC Penney from bankruptcy, avoiding a total liquidation and saving about 70,000 jobs and 650 stores, Joshua Sussberg of the law firm … [Read more...] about 9.10.20: SIMON AND BROOKFIELD SET TO RESCUE JC PENNEY