Thank you, readers, for all the pix you’ve been sending of the ongoing strip show on Lower Westheimer just east of Montrose. Why are the outside walls now gone from the former Felix Mexican Restaurant? Termites ate ’em — or at least polished off enough lard-laden cellulose to require the entire exterior wood structure to be rebuilt. And really, how could the new walls going up for Austin sushi import Uchi — which will reportedly have “many of the same exterior features” as its Tex-Mex predecessor — taste any better?

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• Previously on Swamplot: Finding the Uchi in the Ruins of a Tex-Mex Empire, A First Glimpse of Uchi in Houston: Leasing Lower Westheimer Retail by the Piece

Photos: Candace Garcia (top) and Roland Rodriguez (bottom)