NIGHT LINES

News broke last year that mega-club chain Crobar was coming to Los Angeles. Since that bulletin, however, Crobar’s flagship property in Miami has gone under (a new club, Cameo, now occupies the South Beach location), and it looks as if the owners of the planned Hollywood hotspot have decided to ditch the Crobar name (leaving the Crobar empire with two clubs -- one in Chicago and one in Buenos Aries). Russia-born Robert Vinokur, who used to split his time between New York and Miami, now works full-time on the yet-to-be-named bar that will occupy the Fox Theater (located at 6508 Hollywood Blvd.). Vinokur, pictured inside the former theater, says the club will open “around March” and promises the new 12,500-square-foot destination will deliver a Crobar-like bang for Hollywood clubbers -- even if it has a different name. “The space is going to blow people away,” he says. Vinokur says he is spending around $4 million renovating the Fox into an “incredible multi-purpose nightclub.” He has even hired New York-based ICRAVE Design (the people behind One Sunset and the exclusive Manhattan lounge Tenjune) to rework the raw space. Vinokur says the new club will offer up an unrivaled visual component, which will allow the entire club to “change every weekend utilizing multiple LCD screens and cutting-edge lighting effects.” . . . As if Shag owner Shereen Arazm isn’t busy enough this fall with her just-opened and already slammed Beverly Boulevard restaurant, Terroni, she is debuting another bar, Central, in early December. The lounge, in the former Rokbar location at 1710 Las Palmas, is described as “a sister lounge to Parc” by Arazm. The ascendant L.A. nightlife impresario hired Tracie Butler Interior Design, the same small team behind Parc and Shag, to design Central, which will likely be open to the public in less than two weeks.

-- Charlie.Amter@latimes.com