Equity Method Investment, Allocation of Net Income (Loss) and Cash Flows, Percentage

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Equity Method Investment, Allocation of Proceeds from Capital Transactions, Percentage, Priority Three

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Equity Method Investment, Maximum Internal Rate of Return

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Equity method investments summarized financial information cash.

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Ownership percentage of partner in Joint Venture.

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Area of a real estate property.

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Cash received from the sale of real estate that is held for investment, that is, it is part of an investing activity during the period.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (c)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Investment in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures (Charlotte Gateway Village, LLC) (Details) $ in Thousands, ft² in Millions	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) ft²	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Proceeds from investment property sales		$ 62,667	$ 372	$ 370,944
Charlotte Gateway Village, LLC
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Ownership percentage of partner in joint venture		50.00%
Square footage of real estate property (square feet) \| ft²		1.1
Allocation of net income and cash flows, percentage		50.00%
Maximum internal rate of return to be achieved		17.00%
Allocation of proceeds from capital transactions, percentage, third priority		20.00%
Cash balance of joint venture		$ 3,800
Charlotte Gateway Village, LLC \| BOA
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Ownership percentage of partner in joint venture		50.00%
Allocation of net income and cash flows, percentage		50.00%
Allocation of proceeds from capital transactions, percentage, third priority		80.00%
Scenario Forecast \| Charlotte Gateway Village, LLC \| BOA
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Proceeds from investment property sales	$ 52,200