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While (some) restaurants are evacuating Deep Ellum--East Wind Vietnamese Restaurant and the much-rumored but unconfirmed flight of Sambuca Jazz Café to the former Salve! space on McKinney Avenue--some battle-hardened mavericks armed with taps and pearl onions are actually moving in. Nick Hidi, who earned his nightclub stripes operating a spot called Lena's near Bachman Lake and the Mucky Duck in Prestonwood Mall, is poised to pound stakes in the empty Coppertank Brewing Co. space with not one but two swanky adult entertainment venues under the rubric Club Uropa. One side of the sprawling 15,000-square-foot club will feature Latin music while the other will pound techno drivel. Opening sometime in January, Uropa will have DJs plus live acts and will serve bar food on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the days of the week the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends avid nightclubbers ingest solid food. Since the brewery space was abandoned by Coppertank in October 2001, it had a short run as America's Pub, a multifaceted after-hours nightclub that sputtered in mid-2002 just months after it opened.