Income Taxes Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule Of Reconciliation Of Net Income Attributable To Common Stockholders To Taxable Net Income [Table Text Block]

The following table reconciles net income to REIT taxable income for the years ended December 31:

	Year Ended December 31,
(in thousands)	2012				2011			2010
Net income	$	293,900			$	59,961		$	31,142
Less income attributable to non-controlling interests from continuing operations	(4,821		)		(3,453		)	(821		)
Less income, including gain on sale, allocated to non-controlling interests from discontinued operations	(2,838		)		(129		)	(105		)
Less income allocated to perpetual preferred units	(776		)		(7,000		)	(7,000		)
Less write off of original issuance costs of redeemed perpetual preferred units	(2,075		)		—			—
Net income attributable to common shareholders	283,390				49,379			23,216
Loss from taxable REIT subsidiaries included above	3,323				539			2,056
Net income from REIT operations	286,713				49,918			25,272
Book depreciation and amortization, including discontinued operations	213,479				188,042			179,662
Tax depreciation and amortization	(171,060		)		(155,636		)	(158,134		)
Book/tax difference on gains/losses from capital transactions	(63,832		)		(4,315		)	37,798
Other book/tax differences, net	(40,961		)		8,205			(10,565		)
REIT taxable income	224,339				86,214			74,033
Dividends paid deduction	(224,339		)	(1)	(143,657		)	(124,999		)
Dividends paid in excess of taxable income	$	—			$	(57,443	)	$	(50,966	)

(1) The dividends paid deduction includes designated dividends from 2013 of $33.3 million.

Summary Of Tax Components Of Common And Preferred Dividends Declared And Distributions [Table Text Block]

A schedule of per share distributions we paid and reported to our shareholders is set forth in the following table:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Common Share Distributions
Ordinary income	$	0.96		$	1.08		$	0.89
Long-term capital gain	0.64			0.13			0.20
Unrecaptured Sec. 1250 gain	0.64			0.23			0.48
Return of capital	—			0.52			0.23
Total	$	2.24		$	1.96		$	1.80
Percentage of distributions representing tax preference items	5.72		%	2.83		%	3.91		%