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Beaver County, Pa., Developer Is Placing his Bets on Racetrack Project.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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February 23, 2003
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By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 23--When Beaver County developer Charles J. Betters was a headstrong 17-year-old plumber learning the construction trade, he made a prediction.
"I'm either going to be rich or I'm going to be poor, but I don't want to be in between," he told his cousins, with whom he was sent to live after his parents threw him out of the house.
He ended up rich.
Betters, who goes by Chuck or C.J., grew up blue-collar tough in Center to become one of Beaver County's wealthiest businessmen, controlling a construction and real estate empire headquartered in a shopping center he owns on ...
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