Leased Percentage of Real Estate Assets

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- Definition

Payments for (Proceeds from) Productive Assets, Per Square Foot

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Area of a real estate property.

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- Definition

Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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The net cash outflow or inflow from purchases, sales and disposals of property, plant and equipment and other productive assets, including intangibles.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 3
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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events (Details) $ / shares in Units, ft² in Thousands, $ in Thousands			9 Months Ended
	Oct. 30, 2019 $ / shares	Oct. 28, 2019 USD ($) ft² $ / ft²	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Net sales proceeds from wholly-owned properties			$ 180,975	$ 419,554
Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Common stock dividends (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 0.21
Subsequent Event \| West Monroe Street
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Net sales proceeds from wholly-owned properties		$ 412,000
Proceeds from sale of real estate assets \| $ / ft²		(426)
Area of real estate property (in sq ft) \| ft²		967
Leased percentage of real estate asset		100.00%