As of December 31, 2017, the company owned interests in 461 industrial and 48 office properties comprising 86.0 million square feet.

The company traces its history to Rouse & Associates, which was formed in 1972 by Willard Rouse, George Congdon, David Hammers, and Menard Doswell to develop warehouse space in South Jersey.

[3] Elsewhere their UK subsidiary Rouse Kent developed Kings Hill in the United Kingdom.

[5] In 2003, founder and chief executive officer Willard Rouse died from lung cancer.

[2] In 2014, in a joint venture with Comcast, the company began construction of the Comcast Technology Center, which at 1,142 feet (348 m), is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere outside of Manhattan and Chicago and was designed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.