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Operating Lease, Initial Indirect Cost Expense, Commencement Capitalized During Period

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Operating Leases, Lease Revenue And Tenant Reimbursements

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Variable Interest Entity, Number Of Joint Ventures Not Consolidated

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Area of a real estate property.

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Amount of required minimum rental payments for leases having an initial or remaining non-cancelable letter-terms in excess of one year.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 10
-Section 55
-Paragraph 40
-Subparagraph (Note 3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82846649&loc=d3e38371-112697

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77902758&loc=d3e41502-112717

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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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Percentage of the Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) voting interest owned by (or beneficial interest in) the reporting entity (directly or indirectly).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 810
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5A
-Subparagraph (d)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77990344&loc=SL6759159-111685

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Narrative (Details) ft² in Thousands		3 Months Ended
	Mar. 01, 2018 ft²	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) joint_venture	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Rental revenue and tenant recoveries		$ 161,700,000	$ 158,300,000
Indirect leasing costs capitalized during period		1,800,000	$ 1,400,000
Future undiscounted minimum lease payments on ground leases		$ 449,315,000
VIE, Primary Beneficiary
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of joint ventures meeting VIE definition \| joint_venture		4
Number of joint ventures consolidated \| joint_venture		3
VIE, Primary Beneficiary \| HPP-MAC WSP, LLC
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Ownership Interest	75.00%	75.00%
Equity method investments		$ 190,000,000
Equity method investment agreement, defaulting penalty		$ 25,000,000
VIE, Primary Beneficiary \| HPP-MAC WSP, LLC \| Macerich, WSP, LLC
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Ownership Interest	25.00%
VIE, Primary Beneficiary \| HPP-MAC WSP, LLC \| Creative Office Space
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Area of real estate property, retail and entertainment space (in square feet) \| ft²	500
VIE, Primary Beneficiary \| HPP-MAC WSP, LLC \| Retail And Entertainment Space
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Area of real estate property, retail and entertainment space (in square feet) \| ft²	100
VIE, Not Primary Beneficiary
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of joint ventures not consolidated \| joint_venture		1
Ownership Interest		21.00%