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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.
This week marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the late James W. Rouse (1914-1996), an ambitious businessman, a crusading activist, an early proponent of urban renewal, and a...
Apr 22, 1996 · HAD HE DONE NOTHING ELSE, JAMES W. Rouse, who died last Tuesday at 81, would go down as the world's most self-effacing real-estate developer. He wore rumpled, off-the-rack suits, flew coach...
Nov 20, 2023 · Author Josh Olson and Shirley Harden -- a longtime Columbia, Maryland resident -- describe the history of the town and the visionary legacy of James Rouse, its founder.
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Apr 10, 1996 · James W. Rouse, the visionary developer who built new towns in the countryside, shopping malls in the suburbs and "festival marketplaces," like Faneuil Hall in Boston, in older downtowns, and...
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Apr 22, 1996 · The restored warehouses, quaint specialty shops, cookie stations and sidewalk jugglers came to seem as artificial and cliched as the suburban malls they were intended to compete with. But Rouse,...
May 17, 2024 · When James Rouse died at 81 in 1996, The Baltimore Sun’s obituary described him as “the developer and social architect who turned idealism into bricks, mortar and profit with projects as diverse...
