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Noncontrolling Interest - Holders of Convertible Limited Partnership Units in Operating Partnership - Additional Information (Detail) (Noncontrolling Interest)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Noncontrolling Interest
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest of noncontrolling interest	25.80%us-gaap_MinorityInterestOwnershipPercentageByNoncontrollingOwners / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember
Limited partnership units	7,198,721us-gaap_LimitedPartnersCapitalAccountUnitsOutstanding / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember
Limited partnership units, conversion ratio	1bfs_LimitedPartnersCapitalAccountConvertibleUnitsConversionRatio / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember
Outstanding stock percent that should be acquired for rights to be exercised	39.90%bfs_MinimumOutstandingStockPercentageThatShouldBeAcquiredForRightsIssuedToBecomeExercisable / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember
Limited partnership units convertible in to shares of common stock, eligible for conversion	814,000bfs_LimitedPartnersCapitalAccountConvertibleUnitsEligibleForConversion / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember
Fully converted partnership units and diluted weighted average shares outstanding	27,977,500bfs_PartnersCapitalAccountUnitsConvertedAndWeightedAverageSharesOutstandingDiluted / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember	27,330,100bfs_PartnersCapitalAccountUnitsConvertedAndWeightedAverageSharesOutstandingDiluted / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember	26,613,900bfs_PartnersCapitalAccountUnitsConvertedAndWeightedAverageSharesOutstandingDiluted / us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis = us-gaap_NoncontrollingInterestMember

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The number of limited partner units outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 272

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70434-108055



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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 505

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 5

-Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 4.F)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187171-122770



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-Publisher SEC

-Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)

-Number Topic 4

-Section F

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