CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Housing stock, vacant buildings and their landlords -- including the one at Severance Town Center -- dominated a long list of questions for the city’s five mayoral hopefuls earlier this month.

Those candidates offered their respective strategies on restoring neighborhoods and business districts in decline as well as trust in City Hall during a Heights Chapter League of Women Voters ( LWV ) forum at the Cleveland Heights Community Center.

The top two vote-getters in the Sept. 9 primary will meet again in the November general election.

For Severance Town Center, LWV moderator Wendy Deuring noted that there have been more studies than action, at least up until about a year ago, when the city brought in a master developer.

Councilman Jim Petras said he’s grat

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