^^^ In my experience brick is rarely painted to cover up damage. In fact, it's difficult to keep paint on spalling brick or efflorescence. If it were significantly damaged the paint would be schlefing off all over the place.
The brick will eventually be destroyed by the paint, it needs to go. Paint locks water in the masonry which is what causes the kinds of degredation we are talking about to begin with.
Also there is nothing wrong with using a power washer on brick, you just need to use the lowest pressure setting and a wide tip. In fact, Ive found that the best way to do it is to apply chemical stripper (gotta make sure to use a non etching/acidic kind which is usually where people go wrong) and then hitting it with the sprayer to knock the stripped paint off.
It's never great to have to roughhouse masonry, but you gotta keep the paint off of it. It's the worst thing to do to brick.
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Originally Posted by rivernorthlurker
345 N Morgan is only 200,000 sqft, so that's half the building. I believe Sterling built this 'on spec' from something I read once they lost the Google commitment last year. So now it's 50% occupied in one go.
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This is something I had mentioned years ago, once you have a giant company with many vendors like McDonald's move somewhere, their suppliers are virtually guranteed to follow.