Organization (Details) ft² in Millions	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016 ft² segment property subsidiary redevelopment_asset
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of wholly-owned subsidiaries \| subsidiary	2
Percentage ownership by sole general partner	99.90%
Percentage ownership by sole limited partner	0.10%
Percentage of annualized lease revenue	80.00%
Number of operating segments \| segment	1
Unconsolidated Joint Venture [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of real estate properties	1
Office properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of real estate properties	66
Number of redevelopment assets \| redevelopment_asset	1
Number of office properties under development	2
Square footage of real estate property \| ft²	18.5
Percentage leased	91.40%

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The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date which are not in service because they are subject to redevelopment.

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Number of Real Estate Properties Under Development

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Operating Leases, Income Statement, Percentage of Annualized Lease Revenue

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Percentage of Leased Real Estate Properties

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Area of a real estate property.

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date.

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