![]() Former Rouse headquarters | |
Company type | Commercial Real Estate Development |
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Industry | Retail and Mixed-Use Centers, Master Planned Communities ("New Towns") |
Predecessor | Moss-Rouse Company |
Founded | 1939 ![]() |
Founder | James Rouse ![]() |
Defunct | 2004 |
Successor | General Growth Properties, The Howard Hughes Corporation (2010) |
Headquarters | Columbia, Maryland, U.S. |
Key people | James Rouse, Melvin J. Berman, Mathias J. DeVito, Hunter Moss, Churchill Gibson Carey, Charles "Chili" Jenkins. |
Subsidiaries | The American City Corporation, Howard Research and Development, Community Research and Development |
The Rouse Company, founded by Hunter Moss and James W. Rouse in 1939, was a publicly held shopping mall and community developer from 1956 until 2004, when General Growth Properties (GGP) purchased the company.