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Property and Equipment | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract] |
Property and Equipment | 2. Property and Equipment Property and equipment at December 31 is recorded at cost and summarized as follows (amounts in thousands):
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Land and land improvements |  | $ | 267,051 |  |  | $ | 266,053 |
Buildings |  |  | 2,440,471 |  |  |  | 2,398,117 |
Furniture, fixtures and equipment |  |  | 647,988 |  |  |  | 604,876 |
Construction in progress |  |  | 138,702 |  |  |  | 50,273 |
|  |  | 3,494,212 |  |  |  | 3,319,319 |
Accumulated depreciation |  |  | (1,428,555 | ) |  |  | (1,321,307 | )
Property and equipment, net |  | $ | 2,065,657 |  |  | $ | 1,998,012 |
Depreciation expense, including amortization of assets under capital lease obligations, during 2017, 2016 and 2015 was $110.4 million, $108.1 million, and $112.2 million, respectively. In June 2017, the Company entered into an agreement with the Industrial Development Board of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (the “Board”) to implement a tax abatement plan related to Gaylord Opryland. The tax abatement plan provides for the capping of real property taxes for a period of eight years by legally transferring title to the Gaylord Opryland real property to the Board. The Board financed the acquisition of the Gaylord Opryland real property by issuing a $650 million industrial revenue bond to the Company. The Board then leased this property back to the Company. The Company is obligated to make lease payments equal to the debt service on the industrial revenue bond. No cash was exchanged and no cash will be exchanged in connection with the Company’s lease payments under the lease. The tax abatement period extends through the term of the lease, which coincides with the nine-year maturity of the bond. At any time, the Company has the option to repurchase the real property at a de minimis amount. Due to the form of these transactions, the Company has not recorded the bond or the lease obligation associated with the sale lease-back transaction, and the cost of the Gaylord Opryland real property remains recorded on the balance sheet and is being depreciated over its estimated useful life.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2155823 + Details
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