On the edge of the wind-scoured Salt Lake Valley, between rows of gray and white houses and sunbaked driveways, you can find a little taste of Fenway Park.
A housing subdivision in Herriman, Utah, is turning heads online for its streets, each of which bears the name of a Red Sox star from the annals of team history: Pesky Lane, Pedroia Street, and Varitek Drive, to name a few.
The names, which could be ripped straight from the banners on Van Ness Street, stand out in a place like Herriman, a Salt Lake City suburb 500 miles from the nearest Major League Baseball stadium. There’s little else to suggest Copper Fields, a neat grid of roughly 200 houses completed by Edge Homes in 2024, has a link to Boston.
But once social media caught wind of the Sox-heavy ‘hood over the weekend, fans were ablaze with speculation.
“Ready to blow my savings and move to Utah so I can live on Pedroia Street,” one commenter wrote on X, posting an image of a three-bed, three-bath home on sale for $669,000 (slightly cheaper than a 700-square-foot condo in the South End).
“[I don’t care] about getting priced out of Boston,” opined Anna Caruso of Section 10, a Red Sox podcast, beneath a photo of the development. “You’ll find me here.”
Another commenter said that, in person, the neighborhood is “brand-new and pretty nice,” though “all of the houses look basically the same.”
“I wonder what [percentage] of families that live here have no idea what the streets mean,” they added.
So, who’s behind all these names? There’s not much of a Red Sox connection in the area to speak of, aside from the fact that a young David Ortiz played with Salt Lake’s minor league team while still a Minnesota Twins prospect.
But that didn’t matter to Brandon Parr, the Edge Homes project manager who selected the names. Parr, 47, was born and raised in Utah — but he lives and breathes the Red Sox all the same.
“I liked Wade Boggs a lot, and he just happened to play for them, so I became a fan,” he said. “The rest is history.”
When Parr got the chance to name an entire new subdivision, his vision was clear.
“I don’t think anybody on my team really knew what I was doing until they saw the first flat be recorded [on the master plan],” he said.
Parr made sure to include a (Wade) Boggs Way, as well as a (Jerry) Remy Road, named after the late broadcaster and former player, and a Xander (Bogaerts) Lane. The neighborhood even has a Yawkey Way, named after the controversial Red Sox owner whose name once marked what is now Jersey Street. (Edge Homes seems to have missed the memo on that one.)
Plenty of fans online wondered why Parr didn’t nod toward other Red Sox legends. The answer, he said, was that some names were hard to get local approval for. Ted Williams, for example, had a surname common enough that there’s already a Camp Williams Road in town.
“Some of them are personal favorites,” Parr said of the player names. “I was a big fan of Nathan Eovaldi and his performance in 2018, so he’s on there. ... Boggs was the reason I started liking the Red Sox, so I had to get him. I was just trying to pick some names that meant something to me, and to the organization as well.”
It’s not the first time Parr has gotten creative with street names. Edge Homes takes on anywhere from 10 to 12 development projects a year, and naming all those streets can be “a little bit of a daunting task sometimes,” he said.
Aside from Red Sox players, Parr has also referenced comic book movie actors. A subdivision in Riverton, Utah, includes a Hemsworth Lane and a Hiddleston Drive, named after Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, the actors who play Thor and Loki in Marvel films.
“My company encourages us to be creative,” he said. “It’s just something fun that we do as a team.”
Parr, who carries a Red Sox water bottle and owns a replica championship ring, has taken his family to a few games at Fenway. But he admits that Red Sox fans aren’t exactly plentiful in Salt Lake City.
“I’m kind of alone,” he said. “At the office, I would say there’s definitely more Yankees fans around me than Red Sox fans. But I’ll be a Red Sox fan till the day I die.”
At least one Herriman resident recognizes the significance of the street names.
Chris Watson, 56, a graphic designer and photographer, has lived in Utah for over two decades. But he was raised in Framingham, collecting Red Sox trading cards and watching Luis Tiant and Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski.
“I don’t keep up with [the team] as much anymore,” he said. “But the only baseball hat I’ll wear is a Red Sox hat.”
When he was searching for a place to build a new home a few years back, he realized “really quickly” the names on the lot were something special.
It was a “really fun coincidence” to end up living on Fisk Road — named after Carlton Fisk, Watson’s favorite player on the (in)famous 1978 team. Even that team, lamented for its end-of-season collapse against the Yankees, still holds a special place in his heart.
“That was the peak of fandom for my 8, 9-year old self,” he said. “He would have thought it was really cool [to be living here].”
Camilo Fonseca can be reached at camilo.fonseca@globe.com. Follow him on X @fonseca_esq and on Instagram @camilo_fonseca.reports.