Intangibles - Additional Information (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Intangibles
Net recognition of loss in rental income from intangible amortization write offs	$ (95)
Weighted average amortization period for lease intangibles	17 years
Weighted average amortization period for lease intangible liability	11 years
Above market in-place lease intangible
Intangibles
Above market lease intangible assets written off	$ 169
Above market lease intangible accumulated amortization written off	26
Below market in-place lease intangible
Intangibles
Below market lease intangible liabilities written off	53
Below market lease intangible accumulated accretion written off	$ 5

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Accumulated amortization written-off through the impairment of finite-lived intangible assets.

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Impairment of Intangible Items, Net Income Impact

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Impairment of Intangible Liabilities, Finite-lived

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Accumulated accretion writen-off through the impairment of finite-lived intangible liabilities.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of impairment loss recognized in the period resulting from the write-down of the carrying amount of a finite-lived intangible asset to fair value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 350
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66006027&loc=d3e16373-109275

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