Impairment of Real Estate, Discontinued Operations

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Number of shopping centers sold.

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Number of Outparcels Sold

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Number of Real Estate Partial Properties

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[Line Items] for Schedule of Acquisitions and Dispositions [Table]

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Amount of difference between the carrying amount and the sales price of real estate properties sold as part of discontinued operations.

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

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The cash inflow from the sale of formerly productive land held for sale, anything permanently fixed to it, including buildings, structures on it, and so forth.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3179-108585

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Dispositions and Assets Held for Sale (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($) property shopping_center	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) land_parcel shopping_center	Dec. 31, 2018 property
Schedule of Acquisitions and Dispositions [Line Items]
Gain on sale	$ 7,602	$ 11,448
Disposed of by Sale
Schedule of Acquisitions and Dispositions [Line Items]
Number of shopping centers sold \| shopping_center	3	6
Proceeds from sale of property	$ 44,900	$ 104,200
Gain on sale	7,300	$ 11,400
Number of outparcels sold \| land_parcel		1
Provisions of impairment		$ 200
Disposed of by Sale \| Previously Disposed Assets
Schedule of Acquisitions and Dispositions [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of property	$ 300
Held-for-sale
Schedule of Acquisitions and Dispositions [Line Items]
Number of real estate properties \| property	1		1
Number of real estate partial properties \| property	1