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The Rouse Company

The Rouse Company
Company typeCommercial Real Estate Development
IndustryRetail and Mixed-Use Centers, Master Planned Communities ("New Towns")
PredecessorMoss-Rouse Company
Founded1939 Edit this on Wikidata
FounderJames Rouse Edit this on Wikidata
Defunct2004
SuccessorGeneral Growth Properties, The Howard Hughes Corporation (2010)
HeadquartersColumbia, Maryland, U.S.
Key people
James Rouse, Melvin J. Berman, Mathias J. DeVito, Hunter Moss, Churchill Gibson Carey, Charles "Chili" Jenkins.
SubsidiariesThe 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.