More knocking down and dragging out has been going on around the handful of blocks between Genesee and Taft streets now being prepped for the area’s Fairview District redo. The 1930s-ish apartment building at the corner of Genesee and Fargo St. (next to previously-shattered Meteor Lounge) is as of yesterday mostly out of the picture (as, uh . . . pictured above), freeing up the lot for the 5-story parking garage planned on the east end of the block. A reader snapped a few final looks at and into the structure last Thursday, following the issuance of the building’s Inauguration day demo permits:

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This week, however, what remains of the building is in far less orderly condition:

A shot of a few excavators with heads bowed, following the deed:

Here’s Meteor’s former corner next door, bamboo still largely intact, with the poles and structures of the CenterPoint substation also sticking up in the background:

• Previously on Swamplot: Shake Shack, Steel City Pops Pop Up in East Montrose Fairview District Depictions; Detritus from Fallen Meteor Pulverized, Spread Out Across Max’s Parking Lot; Meteor Crashes to the Ground in East Montrose; Glossy New Views of That 5-Story Parking Garage and Mixed-Use Office Complex Planned for East Montrose; Drag Show Jumps Out of the Way of Bicycle-Themed Parking Garage as Meteor Lounge Shuts Down; Drag-Scene Landmark Meteor To Bow Out, Make Way for Fairview Parking Garage

Photos: MontroseResident