| **Fair Value Measurements and Derivative Instruments (Derivative Financial Instruments) (Details) - USD ($)**          |                | 9 Months Ended   |
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| Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) [Member]                                                                              |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]**                |           |             |   |
| Stock appreciation rights, expiration period                                                                           | 8 years        |             |   |
| Volatility                                                                                                             |           | 40.00%           |   |
| Risk-free interest rate                                                                                                |           | 1.30%            |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation, Calculation [Roll Forward]** |           |             |   |
| Fair value of stock appreciation rights, beginning balance                                                             |           | $ 32,820,000     | $ 0 |
| Issuance                                                                                                               |           |             | 21,660,000 |
| Fair value of stock appreciation rights, ending balance                                                                |           | 16,980,000       | 26,700,000 |
| Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) [Member] | Other Income (Expense) [Member]                                            |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation, Calculation [Roll Forward]** |           |             |   |
| Fair value adjustment at end of period, included in Other Income (Expense)                                             |           | $ (15,840,000)   | $ 5,040,000 |
| Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) [Member] | Minimum [Member]                                                           |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]**                |           |             |   |
| Contractual term (in years)                                                                                            |           | 2 years 4 months |   |
| Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) [Member] | Maximum [Member]                                                           |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]**                |           |             |   |
| Contractual term (in years)                                                                                            |           | 6 years 3 months |   |
| Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) [Member] | Common Stock - Class A [Member]                                            |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]**                |           |             |   |
| Stock appreciation rights (in rights)                                                                                  | 3,000,000      |             |   |
| Exercise price of stock appreciation rights (per share)                                                                | $ 13.00        |             |   |
| Searchlight ALX, LP Promissory Note [Member] | Unsecured Debt [Member]                                                 |           |             |   |
| **Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]**                |           |             |   |
| Debt face amount                                                                                                       | $ 75,000,000.0 |             |   |

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| - Definition
Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.
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| - Definition
Number of warrants or rights outstanding.
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| - Definition
Face (par) amount of debt instrument at time of issuance.
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| - Definition
Period the derivative contract is outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.
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| - Definition
Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.
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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.
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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.
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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 gain (loss) recognized on the income statement for financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.
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Amount of issuances of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.
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Fair value of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.
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