General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP) is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) listed on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol GGP. As the second largest U.S. based, publicly traded REIT, GGP owns, develops, operates and manages over 200 shopping malls in 44 states. GGP headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, and has more than 6,000 employees nationwide.
 
In 1954, brothers Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum decided to expand their family grocery store operations by building Town and Country Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the earliest shopping malls in the Midwest. This was the beginning of General Growth Properties, Inc. Over the next five decades, GGP acquired ownership interest in and/or management responsibility for a portfolio of more than 200 regional shopping malls totaling approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and featuring more than 18,000 specialty retailers. GGP is the largest third-party manager for owners of regional malls.
 
In addition, GGP is the largest mall property owner in the state, with Texas properties including Baybrook Mall, Collin Creek Mall, Deerbrook Mall, First Colony Mall, Galleria Dallas, Highland Mall, Hulen Mall, North Star Mall, Sikes Center, Stonebriar Centre, The Parks at Arlington, The Shops at La Cantera, The Woodlands Mall, Town East Mall, Vista Ridge Mall and Willowbrook Mall.
 
GGP is an investor in The Woodlands, which is a 27,000 acre Master Planned Community north of Houston. As owners of Bridgeland and majority owner of The Woodlands, GGP is one of Houston’s largest master planned community developers. Additionally, GGP owns 80,000 acres of planned community space that 500,000 residents will call home.


GGP owns the master planned communities of Columbia in Maryland and Summerlin, along the western edge of Las Vegas, Nevada. Columbia’s first resident arrived in 1967. Today it serves as a model for master planned communities nationwide.

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