The Rouse Company
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The Rouse Company, founded by James W. Rouse (1914-1996) in 1939 was a publicly held shopping mall and community developer from 1956 until 2004 when General Growth Properties Inc. purchased the company.
The Rouse Company built some of the first enclosed shopping malls, and it pioneered the development of festival marketplaces such as Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, South Street Seaport in New York, New York, Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland, Portside Festival Marketplace in Toledo, Ohio, and Bayside Marketplace in Miami, Florida.
Its community projects include the Village of Cross Keys in Baltimore, and the planned cities of Columbia, Maryland (where it is headquartered), Bridgelands, Texas and Summerlin, Nevada. The Rouse Company was an investor in The Woodlands, Texas.
In 1996, The Howard Hughes Corporation which had extensive property and other business interests became a subsidiary. On November 12, 2004, the Rouse Company was sold to General Growth Properties Inc., another shopping mall developer.
