Family-owned bar opening in South Park Hill hopes to become next “neighborhood staple”

Carrie and Ernest Wigglesworth have lived in the South Park Hill neighborhood with their son for 11 years, watching “restaurants come and go,” Carrie said.

One of those, The Elm, was a neighborhood watering hole for the couple and a particularly tough goodbye when it closed in Dec. 2020 after 16 years. The space at 5001 E. Colfax Ave. was briefly home to Crush Wing + Tap, but it closed in May 2022 and has been sitting vacant since.

“We’ve seen and heard neighbors clambering for a good space that they can rely on, and it’s been a dream of my husband’s to own his own restaurant,” Carrie said. “When we saw that this space was available, we kind of bumped that dream up a bit.”

On the first weekend of March, the Wigglesworths are opening The W in the former Elm space. ...