Debt - Summary of Outstanding Debt (Parenthetical) (Details) - USD ($)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Letter of credit	$ 200,000,000
Revolving credit facility	20,000,000	$ 20,000,000
Two Hundred And Fifty Million Line Of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Revolving credit facility	13,544,000
Line of Credit Borrowing Capacity	$ 250,000,000
Line Of Credit Facility Interest Rate Description	bears interest at LIBOR plus 175 basis points
Two Hundred And Fifty Million Line Of Credit \| London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument basis spread on variable rate	1.75%
Ten Million Line Of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Revolving credit facility	$ 7,710,000
Line of Credit Borrowing Capacity	$ 10,000,000
Line Of Credit Facility Interest Rate Description	bears interest at LIBOR plus 150 basis points and an additional liquidity premium of 66 basis points
Ten Million Line Of Credit \| London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument basis spread on variable rate	1.50%
Additional liquidity premium on variable rate	0.66%
Twenty Million Line Of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Revolving credit facility	$ 6,627,000
Line of Credit Borrowing Capacity	$ 20,136,000
Line Of Credit Facility Interest Rate Description	bears interest at LIBOR plus 300 basis points and an additional liquidity premium of 120 basis points
Twenty Million Line Of Credit \| London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument basis spread on variable rate	3.00%
Additional liquidity premium on variable rate	1.20%
Revolving Credit Facility [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Revolving Credit Facility	$ 1,000,000,000
One Market Plaza [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Ownership interest rate of property	49.00%

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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The total amount of the contingent obligation under letters of credit outstanding as of the reporting date.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
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Amount of current borrowing capacity under the credit facility considering any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed (for example, borrowings may be limited by the amount of current assets), but without considering any amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Description of the interest rate for the amounts borrowed under the credit facility, including the terms and the method for determining the interest rate (for example, fixed or variable, LIBOR plus a percentage, increasing rate, timing of interest rate resets, remarketing provisions).

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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