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Deferred Costs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Deferred Costs |
| December 31, 2011
| Total Cost |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Deferred Costs, net
Leasing Costs | $ | 140,772 |  |  | $ | (50,990 | ) |  | $ | 89,782 |
Financing Costs | 38,929 |  |  | (13,349 | ) |  | 25,580 |
Total | $ | 179,701 |  |  | $ | (64,339 | ) |  | $ | 115,362 |
| December 31, 2010
| Total Cost |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Deferred Costs, net
Leasing Costs | $ | 123,724 |  |  | $ | (43,930 | ) |  | $ | 79,794 |
Financing Costs | 37,257 |  |  | (10,934 | ) |  | 26,323 |
Total | $ | 160,981 |  |  | $ | (54,864 | ) |  | $ | 106,117 |

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