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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Construction in Progress (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Construction in progress	$ 39,301us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess	$ 30,261us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess
Park Van Ness
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Construction in progress	35,458us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess / us-gaap_RealEstateAndAccumulatedDepreciationDescriptionOfPropertyAxis = bfs_VanNessSquareMember	26,998us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess / us-gaap_RealEstateAndAccumulatedDepreciationDescriptionOfPropertyAxis = bfs_VanNessSquareMember
Other
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Construction in progress	$ 3,843us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess / us-gaap_RealEstateAndAccumulatedDepreciationDescriptionOfPropertyAxis = us-gaap_OtherPropertyMember	$ 3,263us-gaap_DevelopmentInProcess / us-gaap_RealEstateAndAccumulatedDepreciationDescriptionOfPropertyAxis = us-gaap_OtherPropertyMember

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- Definition

The current amount of expenditures for a real estate project that has not yet been completed.

+ References

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 944

-SubTopic 210

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03.10)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879938&loc=d3e572229-122910



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Glossary Phase

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49177889

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