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Acquisitions (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2024
Acquisitions [Abstract] |
Schedule of Acquisition Capital Expenditures |
|  | For the three months |  | For the nine months
|  | ended September 30, |  | ended September 30,
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
|  | (in thousands)
Acquisitions of towers and related assets |  | $ | 196,659 |  | $ | 41,060 |  | $ | 234,853 |  | $ | 63,411
Land buyouts and other assets (1) |  |  | 10,728 |  |  | 12,054 |  |  | 33,556 |  |  | 29,440
Total cash acquisition capital expenditures |  | $ | 207,387 |  | $ | 53,114 |  | $ | 268,409 |  | $ | 92,851
(1)Excludes $7.7 million and $6.7 million spent to extend ground lease terms for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and excludes $17.0 million and $15.0 million spent to extend ground lease terms for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The Company recorded these amounts in prepaid expenses and other current assets within the changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions section of its Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

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