Area of land sold in the reporting period.

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Represents the area of land sold in the reporting period as a percentage of the total area of land holdings.

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The number of land parcels.

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The distance of retail land owned adjacent to a major Interstate highway.

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Area of land held.

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The cash outflow from the acquisition of property as primarily intended to generate income for its owner.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3213-108585

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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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LAND AND SUBSURFACE INTERESTS - Daytona Beach, Florida Land (Details) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended
	May 01, 2018 a	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) a property mi
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Area of land sales as a percentage of land holdings	74.00%
Land sale acres	6,007
Daytona Beach, FL
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		3
Purchase price \| $		$ 2.0
Undeveloped land \| Daytona Beach, FL
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		8,100
Undeveloped land \| Daytona Beach, FL \| Property west of Interstate 95
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		7,000
Distance of land owned along Interstate \| mi		6
Undeveloped land \| Daytona Beach, FL \| Property west of Interstate 95 and north of Interstate 4
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		1,100
Undeveloped land \| Daytona Beach, FL \| Property east of Interstate 95
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		1,100
Distance of land owned along Interstate \| mi		6
Undeveloped land, parcel one \| Daytona Beach, FL \| Property west of Interstate 95 and north of Interstate 4
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Acres		850
Undeveloped land, smaller parcels \| Daytona Beach, FL \| Property west of Interstate 95 and north of Interstate 4
Land and development costs and subsurface interests
Number of land parcels \| property		3