Editing James Rouse (section)

===Retirement===
After 40 years at the Rouse Company, Rouse retired from day-to-day management in 1979. Soon afterwards, he and his wife founded the [[Enterprise Community Partners]], a not-for-profit [[foundation (charity)|foundation]] funded in part by a for-profit [[subsidiary]], The Enterprise Development Company, and focused on seeding partnerships with community groups that would address the need for affordable housing and associated social services for poor neighborhoods. In 1984, Jim Rouse was soliciting business representing both Rouse Company as CEO and Enterprise Development as president. The [[Rouse Company]] board of directors asked Jim Rouse to leave as CEO of the Rouse Company and his position in Enterprise Development which ended his involvement with the company he founded.<ref>{{cite book |title=New City Upon A Hill, A History of Columbia of Maryland |page=128 |first1=Joseph Rocco |last1=Mitchell |first2=David L. |last2=Stebenne |date=2007 |publisher=History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1596290679}}</ref>

Rouse was inducted into the Junior Achievement [[U.S. Business Hall of Fame]] in 1981. In 1988, Rouse was awarded the second [[Honor Award]] from the [[National Building Museum]].

The Rouse Theatre in [[Wilde Lake High School]] is named after James. In May 2006, an approximately four-mile stretch of [[Maryland Route 175]] between [[Interstate 95 in Maryland|Interstate 95]] and [[U.S. Route 29]] in Columbia, Maryland, was named after Rouse and his wife, Patty. The [[Jim Rouse Visionary Center]] opened in 2006 in a formerly contaminated Whiskey Warehouse in Baltimore.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Visionary Museum|url=http://www.avam.org/|access-date=November 20, 2014}}</ref>