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Bellevue is the city where Wood River Valley's working class sleeps. It doesn't usually host the many visitors to the Bellevue-Hailey-Ketchum-Sun Valley corridor, unless they stay at the only motel in town, the 21-room High Country Motel.
Greg Anderson is putting Bellevue in the hotel world.
He started construction in September on a 56-room, three-story Silver Creek Hotel on undeveloped land alongside Main Street toward the north end of town.
Anderson is building the hotel as much for tourists as he is for people who live in Bellevue, which has a population of 2,300.
"The people that live here, it's their extra bedroom," Anderson said about Silver Creek Hotel, which he expects to open in July. "It's amazing how often people come down for weddings or a funeral. A lot of people down here don't have an extra bedroom."
Anderson will build two multi-room suites into Silver Creek and there will be some luxury rooms, but he said 80 percent of...