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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. Beginnings: Moss-Rouse Company. The Moss-Rouse Company was founded as a FHA mortgage company with a loan from Hunter Moss's sister.
The Rouse Company traces its roots to the Moss-Rouse Company, a Baltimore mortgage banking firm owned by James W. Rouse and Hunter Moss in 1939. The partners, who had borrowed $20,000 to start their business, originated Federal Housing Administration loans for several years.
The Rouse Company is an essential specialty trade of the Commercial Construction Industry. We are privileged to work alongside nationally and globally recognized developers and contractors who help shape our built world, for today and the future.
James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 – April 9, 1996) was an American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company. Rouse was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.
Rouse Company. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Rouse Company developed and managed a series of "festival marketplaces"—central city shopping malls featuring entertainment and historically themed architecture—that were widely credited with attracting crowds of shoppers and new investment dollars to formerly blighted downtown commercial areas.
May 17, 2018 · Under the direction of founder and “ industry prophet ” James W. Rouse, the company was in the vanguard of suburban enclosed-mall construction in the 1950s, the planned community movement in the 1960s, and the proliferation of urban “ festival marketplaces ” in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Feb 23, 1996 · Rouse, one of the largest developers of shopping malls in the country, will assume $294 million in debt and give the Hughes heirs $176 million in Rouse stock. Before the sale closes, Hughes...
