Common Stock Dividends Per Share Paid Percent, Payable On Common Unit

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Common Stock Dividends Per Share Paid Percent, Payable Upon Vesting Of Long-Term Investment Plan Unit

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Number Of Senior Management That Were Granted Long-Term Incentive Plan Awards

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Percentage Of The Award

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Remaining Percentage Of The Award

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Performance Period

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Total Stockholder Return, Percent

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Mack-Cali Realty, L.P.'s Partners' Capital (Long-Term Incentive Plan Awards) (Details) $ in Millions			3 Months Ended
	Mar. 08, 2016	Jun. 05, 2015 shares	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) item shares
Shares granted \| shares		800,000
Total unrecognized compensation cost \| $			$ 1.3
Total unrecognized compensation cost, period of recognition			9 months 18 days
Performance Shares [Member]
Total unrecognized compensation cost \| $			$ 1.1
Total unrecognized compensation cost, period of recognition			2 years 2 months 12 days
2016 LTIP Plan Awards [Member]
Dividends paid, percent representing common unit of limited partnership interest			10.00%
Dividends paid, percent payable upon vesting of LTIP Unit			90.00%
Total unrecognized compensation cost \| $			$ 8.7
Total unrecognized compensation cost, period of recognition			3 years 4 months 24 days
2016 LTIP Plan Awards [Member] \| Messieur Rudin, DeMarco, And Tycher [Member] \| Time-Based Award [Member]
Percent of the award	25.00%
Performance period	3 years
2016 LTIP Plan Awards [Member] \| Messieur Rudin, DeMarco, And Tycher [Member] \| Performance Shares [Member]
Remaining percent of the award	75.00%
2016 LTIP Plan Awards [Member] \| Other Executive Officers [Member]
Percent of the award			40.00%
Remaining percent of the award			60.00%
2016 LTIP Plan Awards [Member] \| Executive Officers [Member]
Number of senior management who received 2016 LTIP awards \| item			8
2016 TBV LTIP Units [Member]
Shares granted \| shares			157,617
2016 OPP [Member]
TSR percent			50.00%
2016 PBV LTIP Units [Member]
Shares granted \| shares			499,756