James Rouse
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Friday, October 17, 2025 (part of October 2025)
category: 
Business
clue: Among this (sub)urban planner's influential contributions is the idea that communities needed a town center or third place, which his company pioneered in the form of the shopping mall and its food court.
explanation: The Rouse Company, founded and led by Rouse, did not build the first indoor shopping mall, but they did popularize the concept by building a great many of them starting in the 1950s, and did specifically develop the first food court within them. Rouse's career earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work developing suburbs. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Richard Slominsky, and Matthew Preston
trivia: Rouse was the grandfather of original Hulk actor Edward Norton.
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