Business and Organization	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Business and Organization	Business and Organization CNL Growth Properties, Inc. was organized in Maryland on December 12, 2008. The term “Company” includes, unless the context otherwise requires, CNL Growth Properties, Inc., Global Growth, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), Global Growth GP, LLC and other subsidiaries (including variable interest entities) of CNL Growth Properties, Inc. The Company operates, and has elected to be taxed, as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes commencing with its taxable year ended December 31, 2010. From October 20, 2009 through April 11, 2014, the Company received aggregate offering proceeds of approximately $208.3 million from its initial and follow-on offering (the “Offerings”). On August 4, 2016, the Company's stockholders approved a plan of liquidation and dissolution ("Plan of Dissolution") authorizing the Company to undertake an orderly liquidation. In an orderly liquidation, the Company will sell of all of its remaining assets, pay all of its known liabilities, provide for the payment of its unknown or contingent liabilities, distribute its remaining cash to its stockholders as liquidating distributions, wind-up its operations and dissolve the Company in accordance with Maryland law. As a result of the approval of the Plan of Dissolution by the stockholders in August 2016, the Company adopted the liquidation basis of accounting ("Liquidation Basis of Accounting") as described in Note 4. "Net Assets in Liquidation." The Company is externally advised by CNL Global Growth Advisors, LLC (the “Advisor”) and its property manager is CNL Global Growth Managers, LLC (the “Property Manager”), each of which is an affiliate of CNL Financial Group, LLC, the Company’s sponsor (“CNL” or the “Sponsor”). The Advisor is responsible for managing the Company’s affairs on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Company pursuant to an advisory agreement among the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. Substantially all of the Company’s operating, administrative and certain property management services, are provided by sub-advisors to the Advisor and sub-property managers to the Property Manager. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned interests in seven Class A multifamily properties, all of which were operational and as to which development was substantially complete. The Company had a total of 1,960 completed apartment units as of December 31, 2016. All of the Company’s multifamily properties are owned through joint ventures in which it has co-invested with an affiliate of a national or regional multifamily developer.

Business and Organization

CNL Growth Properties, Inc. was organized in Maryland on December 12, 2008. The term “Company” includes, unless the context otherwise requires, CNL Growth Properties, Inc., Global Growth, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), Global Growth GP, LLC and other subsidiaries (including variable interest entities) of CNL Growth Properties, Inc. The Company operates, and has elected to be taxed, as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes commencing with its taxable year ended December 31, 2010. From October 20, 2009 through April 11, 2014, the Company received aggregate offering proceeds of approximately $208.3 million from its initial and follow-on offering (the “Offerings”).

On August 4, 2016, the Company's stockholders approved a plan of liquidation and dissolution ("Plan of Dissolution") authorizing the Company to undertake an orderly liquidation. In an orderly liquidation, the Company will sell of all of its remaining assets, pay all of its known liabilities, provide for the payment of its unknown or contingent liabilities, distribute its remaining cash to its stockholders as liquidating distributions, wind-up its operations and dissolve the Company in accordance with Maryland law. As a result of the approval of the Plan of Dissolution by the stockholders in August 2016, the Company adopted the liquidation basis of accounting ("Liquidation Basis of Accounting") as described in Note 4. "Net Assets in Liquidation."

The Company is externally advised by CNL Global Growth Advisors, LLC (the “Advisor”) and its property manager is CNL Global Growth Managers, LLC (the “Property Manager”), each of which is an affiliate of CNL Financial Group, LLC, the Company’s sponsor (“CNL” or the “Sponsor”). The Advisor is responsible for managing the Company’s affairs on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Company pursuant to an advisory agreement among the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. Substantially all of the Company’s operating, administrative and certain property management services, are provided by sub-advisors to the Advisor and sub-property managers to the Property Manager.

As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned interests in seven Class A multifamily properties, all of which were operational and as to which development was substantially complete. The Company had a total of 1,960 completed apartment units as of December 31, 2016.

All of the Company’s multifamily properties are owned through joint ventures in which it has co-invested with an affiliate of a national or regional multifamily developer.