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Long-Term Incentive Plan Units (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Unvested LTIP Units | The below table details unvested OP LTIP Units as of March 31, 2020:
Grant Recipient |  | Number of OP LTIP Units Granted |  | Grant Date |  | Vesting Date(1)
Directors: |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | 14,552 |  |  | September 11, 2019 |  | September 10, 2020
Dedicated or partially dedicated personnel: |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | 12,818 |  |  | December 13, 2019 |  | December 13, 2020
|  | 10,067 |  |  | December 13, 2019 |  | December 13, 2021
|  | 8,691 |  |  | December 11, 2018 |  | December 11, 2020
|  | 4,977 |  |  | March 4, 2020 |  | December 31, 2020
|  | 9,834 |  |  | March 4, 2020 |  | December 31, 2021
Total unvested OP LTIP Units at March 31, 2020 |  | 60,939 |  |  |  |  |
(1) Date at which such OP LTIP Units will vest and become non-forfeitable.
Roll-Forward of Company's LTIP Units Outstanding | The following table summarizes issuance and exercise activity of OP LTIP Units for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019:
|  | Three-Month Period Ended
|  | March 31, 2020 |  | March 31, 2019
|  | Manager |  | Director/ Employee |  | Total |  | Manager |  | Director/ Employee |  | Total
OP LTIP Units Outstanding (December 31, 2019 and January 1, 2019, respectively) |  | 365,518 |  |  | 180,198 |  |  | 545,716 |  |  | 375,000 |  |  | 146,371 |  |  | 521,371 |
Granted |  | — |  |  | 14,811 |  |  | 14,811 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Exercised |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
OP LTIP Units Outstanding (March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively) |  | 365,518 |  |  | 195,009 |  |  | 560,527 |  |  | 375,000 |  |  | 146,371 |  |  | 521,371 |
OP LTIP Units Unvested and Outstanding (March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively) |  | — |  |  | 60,939 |  |  | 60,939 |  |  | — |  |  | 37,709 |  |  | 37,709 |
OP LTIP Units Vested and Outstanding (March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively) |  | 365,518 |  |  | 134,070 |  |  | 499,588 |  |  | 375,000 |  |  | 108,662 |  |  | 483,662 |

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