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Pennsylvania Racetrack Hearings Set for Monday

PENNSYLVANIA – As reported by the Pittsburgh Business Journal: "Public hearings on two proposals to establish thoroughbred racetracks in Western Pennsylvania are scheduled for Monday.

"The Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission has set a meeting for 10 a.m. at the McKeesport Area School District administrative offices concerning an application by 1935 Inc. to build a one-mile dirt track off Coulter Road in South Versailles.

"…The track is being proposed by five members of the Biros family, who would like to build it on 140 acres they own near a bend in the Youghiogheny River.

"The track the Biros family envisions is fairly modest as thoroughbred tracks go. Plans call for a grandstand that will provide room for 1,800 customers and a parking lot with space for 2,200 cars.

"…At 3 p.m. on Monday, the commission has scheduled a public hearing on an application by Beaver County businessman Charles Betters to build a racetrack in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Hays on a bluff overlooking the Monongahela River…"

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