When Gordon Speagle is asked to describe the building that he and his wife envision as their future restaurant and bakery, the phone goes momentarily silent.
“I would say it is —” he begins, words trickling off as he chuckles. “I’d say it has some character.”
Located at the intersection of Emerald and Garden streets — at 802 N. Garden St., specifically — the worn white structure with peeling paint doesn’t look like much. Not yet. Residents on the Boise Bench might remember it as a secondhand store for toys, or decades ago, a neighborhood market…