Nick DeCosta-Klipa at Boston.com discusses the development plans around Fenway Park.

In their 1,054-page notification form to the Boston Planning and Development Agency, the Red Sox’ owners, Fenway Sports Group, as well as the real estate firm WS Development, wrote that, in total, the project would transform four “underutilized” lots into 2.1 million square feet of office, lab, residential, and retail space.

While some neighborhoods around ballparks elsewhere in the country have become “sports theme parks,” the group says they aim do the “opposite.”

“The Project should feel like the neighborhood is enveloping the ballpark, and not that the ballpark is spreading its influence into the neighborhood,” they wrote in their proposal to the BPDA.

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I lived in that neighborhood in the early 1980s, and there was nothing to do. When my daughter went to college in that area in the late aughties, I was amazed at how much it changed. Shopping, restaurants, movie theaters had all popped up. The City of Boston, to it’s credit, kept building as demand for home and offices kept growing. This development is right in line with everything that went on in the Fenway area in the last 20 years, and I’m glad to see it.