Highlights
James Rouse was a real estate developer, civic activist and philanthropist known for rejuvenating downtown areas in the United States. As president of The Rouse Company, he created innovative "festival marketplaces," including Harborplace in Baltimore, Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, Gallery at Market East in downtown Philadelphia, and South Street Seaport in New York. Many say the native of Easton, Md., helped popularize the term "urban renewal." Rouse's legacy also includes Columbia, the planned community between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Columbia has become a model for similar communities nationwide. Rouse began his career in the mortgage banking industry but left it in 1954 to...
James Rouse was a real estate developer, civic activist and philanthropist known for rejuvenating downtown areas in the United States. As president of The Rouse Company, he created innovative "festival marketplaces," including Harborplace in Baltimore, Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, Gallery at Market East in downtown Philadelphia, and South Street Seaport in New York. Many say the native of Easton, Md., helped popularize the term "urban renewal." Rouse's legacy also includes Columbia, the planned community between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Columbia has become a model for similar communities nationwide. Rouse began his career in the mortgage banking industry but left it in 1954 to start his own real estate company, focusing initially on the development of several indoor shopping malls, now a staple of American suburbia. After retiring in 1981, Rouse and his wife, Patty, formed the Enterprise Foundation with the goal of creating affordable housing for low-income families. Rouse died April 9, 1996, at the age of 81.
Displaying items 1-12 of 34
» View baltimoresun.com items only
1
2
3
•
Next >
-
30 homes owned by Columbia Housing Corp. to get energy-saving makeovers
Thanks to $300,000 from Maryland state government, about 30 older Columbia townhouses owned by a nonprofit and occupied by low- and moderate-income families will get a major energy-saving makeover in coming months. Howard County's Community Action Agency...Tags: Energy Saving, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Government, Heads of State
-
Residents meet CA's new head
Serenaded by the Celtic strings of the Painted Trillium musical trio in historic Oakland Manor, Columbia Association President Philip Nelson made his public debut Thursday night. The only man dressed in a formal dark suit and tie among the crowd of about...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Taylor Swift, Homes, Trips and Vacations, Dining and Drinking
-
Columbia board adopts position on village centers
Baltimore Sun reporterWhen the Howard County Council begins taking public testimony Monday night on a bill creating a new way to redevelop ailing Columbia village centers, a somewhat-reluctant Columbia Association board of directors will be ready. After a nearly five-hour,...Tags: Oakland (Alameda, California), Local Authority
-
Howard County Datebook
Sunday Holi dance The India Forum Inc., a nonprofit organization, will sponsor a Holi Dance Competition from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the James Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts at Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia. The event includes...Tags: George Cukor, Barbara Harris, Earth Day, Ceremonies, Dance
-
Columbia Association president bids cheerful farewell
Maggie J. Brown started her career at the Columbia Association 26 years ago as a salesperson, and as she prepares for the honors and relaxation coming her way as retirement approaches at the end of the month, that persona persists. "I'm going to be out...Tags: Sales, Software Industry, Elizabeth Bobo, New Products, National Government
-
General Growth underestimated Harborplace
Ouch! On a visit to Harborplace this week, as the news was coming out about its owner's bankruptcy, I couldn't help but think about that brilliant summer day in 1980 when it opened. Some 29 years later, in the financially gloomy spring of 2009, it was...Tags: Restaurants, Fells Point, Phillips Seafood, Belvedere Square, Restaurant and Catering Industry
-
Rouse risked design, not money
Tribune NewspapersJames Rouse took risks with malls and marketplaces, not finances. General Growth Properties did the opposite. That explains as much as anything why the company that absorbed the Maryland-based Rouse Co. landed in bankruptcy proceedings on Thursday....Tags: Cherry Hill, Mortgages, Chicago Mortgages, Glen Burnie, Bankruptcy
-
Key points of downtown Columbia's future are in dispute
General Growth Properties has agreed with all but three county-recommended changes to its 30-year redevelopment plan for Town Center Columbia, but the disagreements are over key points. Still, Columbia General Manager and General Growth Properties Senior...Tags: Local Authority
-
Coalition critiques Columbia plan
A month after General Growth Properties submitted its long-awaited plan for redeveloping downtown Columbia, a citizens group offered the first formal public critique of the 82-page document and applications for zoning changes. The meeting held Wednesday...Tags: Local Authority, Citizens Initiative and Recall
-
Baltimore's inner charm
Special to amNewYorkNew Yorkers donąt have to travel far for a little Southern comfort. Just three hours south on Amtrak, sits Baltimore. Dubbed 'Charm City,' this proud working and middle class town gets a bad rap, thanks in part to television dramas like "The Wire" and...Tags: Minority Groups, Phillips Seafood, John Shields, Harriet Tubman, National Aquarium Baltimore
-
Columbia
Special to baltimoresun.comThe People Tree, a golden starburst sculpture situated on the edge of man-made Lake Kittamaqundi in the heart of Columbia, is a fitting symbol of the community's fundamental principles of diversity, equality and camaraderie. It was these extant pillars of...Tags: Bodies of Water, Middle Schools, Carl Sandburg, Edward Norton, Rivers
-
Rouse Co. timeline
1939 James W. Rouse and Hunter Moss start the Moss-Rouse Co., a small mortgage banking firm. 1954 Rouse parts with Moss and forms James W. Rouse & Co. 1955 Rouse builds Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore. 1957 James Rouse forms Community Research &...Tags: Corporate Officers, Glen Burnie
Jul 5, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 28, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 10, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 12, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 12, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 18, 2009
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Apr 16, 2009
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 11, 2009
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 2, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 9, 2008
|Story| AM New York
Jan 19, 2007
|Story| Baltimoresun.com
Aug 21, 2004
|Story| Baltimore Sun
