What Rouse actually wanted to call his nonprofit
I've got a story running in Sunday's paper about Columbia-based Enterprise Community Partners, the affordable-housing giant. Here's a tidbit I couldn't fit in: Jim Rouse, who founded the organization with wife Patty, originally intended to call it something else.
The Robin Hood Trust.
As chairman Bart Harvey tells the story, the longtime developer went with Plan B because John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, said: "I'll go on your board if you change your name."
The first one does seem like classic Rouse, doesn't it?
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