Debt Instrument Contractual Facility Borrowing Capacity

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Number Of Loan Tranches

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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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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.19(b),22(b))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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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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Borrowings (Union Square Construction Financing) (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 29, 2016 USD ($) loan	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Contractual facility		$ 271,732	$ 266,134
Union Square Construction Financing [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Contractual facility	$ 57,500	57,500
Advanced-to-Date		8,000
Facility Limit		57,500
Union Square Construction Financing [Member] \| Bank Of The Ozarks [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Number of loan tranches \| loan	3
Union Square Construction Financing [Member] \| Bank Of The Ozarks [Member] \| Senior Loan [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Advanced-to-Date		8,000	8,000
Facility Limit		8,000	8,000
Union Square Construction Financing [Member] \| Tammany Mezz Investor, LLC [Member] \| Mezzanine Loan [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Contractual facility			$ 7,500
Facility Limit		$ 7,500