06. "The Crescent Corridor and The Lake Calumet Airport," City Innovation, January 1992. Brochure.
In this proposal, which Goldberg contributed to significantly, City Innovation—an independent, non-profit, city planning organization based in Minneapolis—advances a plan for the revitalization of a 148-square-mile bi-state area along the southern rim of Lake Michigan known as the "Crescent Corridor." This area—stretching from Chicago's Loop through its south side, to the working-class suburbs of Harvey and Calumet City, and over the Indiana border to Hammond, Munster and Gary—had suffered greatly with the closing of many factories and the general decline of manufacturing in the U.S. The success of this plan, however, was predicated on the success of its proposed anchor tenant, the Lake Calumet Airport. Despite support from Mayor Daley, the Lake Calumet site was eventually abandoned due to claims that it would be significantly more expensive to build than an alternate, rural site in Peotone, Illinois.

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