The Green Monster at Boston’s Fenway Park may be getting a new neighbor.
The project team behind the proposed Fenway Corners development that would surround Fenway Park revealed plans this week for Fenway Corners North, a 129-foot-high office building that would rise next to and above the Green Monster.
The Green Monster towers over Fenway Park’s left field and is a baseball landmark. At more than 37 feet tall, it is the tallest outfield wall in Major League Baseball.
Fenway Corners North would be part of the first phase of the Fenway Corners project that is being developed by local firm WS Development, Fenway Sports Group Real Estate — a subsidiary of the company that owns the Boston Red Sox — and the D’Angelo family, owners of existing properties near Fenway Park.
Fenway Corners is proposed to include about 2.1 million square feet of commercial properties in eight buildings surrounding the more than century-old stadium. The project, first announced in 2023, calls for commercial, residential, retail and restaurant space. It received necessary permits in 2023 and is now in the design phase, WS said.
Fenway Corners North, a 250,000-square-foot office building towering over the Green Monster, would include a two-story pedestrian stairway that would ascend to Lansdowne Street. In the project team's presentation this week to the Boston Planning Department, it said one of its priorities is for Fenway Corners to "avoid becoming a sports theme park."
The ballpark is located in a tight space in a dense urban neighborhood with little room for uncovered parking lots or large outdoor plazas that sometimes accompany sports stadiums. The Fenway Corners project would require the demolition of some buildings near the stadium.
“The project aspires to build community and activity via active streetscapes and new public uses, while respecting the historic fabric and significance of Fenway Park and the Richardson Building at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Jersey Street,” WS said in a statement from the developer.
For the record
Todd Norley at WS is handling retail leasing, and Yanni Tsipis at WS is in charge of office and lab space leasing. Morris Adjmi Architects, Jaklitsch/Gardner and Gensler are the design architects.