The Port of Cleveland yesterday approved financing for four very different Cleveland development projects that have something in common — they offer the opportunity to enhance the city’s quality of life.

A proposed development that would add a 119-unit apartment building within a short walk to Little Italy’s commercial district and train station may have gotten derailed today at a Cleveland Landmark Commission meeting.

On Thursday, Cleveland’s Landmarks Commission reviewed designs for the Shaker Square Residences, a single-family infill project planned to replace a surface parking lot directly northeast of Shaker Square at 13999 Cormere Ave. The project would consist of four detached homes along Kemper Road as well as two pairs…

Cleveland’s Landmark Commission tomorrow is due to scrutinize how a proposed apartment building on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood would relate to its surroundings. No surrounding is more important that the former St. Agnes Church’s historic bell tower — the only structure to survive the church’s demise.

Smaller buildings aren’t getting the breaks in Downtown Cleveland lately. Doesn’t matter if they’re historic or not. NEOtrans has been writing lately about the 143-year-old Gilman Building facing its demise for a mixed-use development in the Warehouse Distrct.

When NEOtrans broke the news on Friday that an historic building in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District was slated for demolition, it was unknowingly reporting on the first steps in the next phases of Sherwin-Williams’ global headquarters development.