Long-forgotten neighborhood shows promise for FC Cincinnati stadium

Imagine a pro sports team in the West End. New City Council member Jeff Pastor can. He’s too young to remember the Reds playing at Crosley Field, the charming old ballpark they left in 1970, but he’d loved to share the excitement with his children. “This will be great for my young children here at Robert A.Taft High School to see a professional sport right in their backyard,” Pastor told WCPO Tuesday about the prospects of FC Cincinnati building a soccer stadium in the neighborhood where he grew up. The prospects seemed brighter after the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority confirmed to WCPO’s Amanda Seitz that FC Cincinnati signed an option last week to buy 60 CMHA lots in the West End.