Restaurateurs persevere locally in dour economy 

Jeremy Aevermann was running on very little sleep in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 9 opening of his new restaurant, Solid, located on Broad Street in Boise’s BoDo district. Occupying an airy, 7,500-square-foot space, which most recently housed a dueling piano bar, Aevermann and his business partner Elizabeth Oldenkamp were blurs of activity. [...]