Motorola CSG-Harvard Heliport

Economic reasons. The heliport was a private facility exclusively serving the adjacent Motorola campus. Motorola closed the Harvard plant due to a severe global downturn in the mobile phone market and a major corporate restructuring that shifted manufacturing to overseas contractors. With the closure of the plant, the heliport became obsolete and was decommissioned.

The heliport is abandoned. The physical helipad, a concrete circle with a faded 'H' marking, is still visible on the property's lawn just south of the main building. The massive building it served sat vacant for many years. It was eventually sold and, as of the early 2020s, has been embroiled in complex legal disputes regarding its ownership. The site is no longer a corporate campus and is largely underutilized, reportedly used for some warehousing or remaining vacant.

The heliport was an integral part of Motorola's state-of-the-art, 1.5 million-square-foot cellular phone manufacturing campus, which opened in 1996. Its primary function was to provide rapid executive transport for corporate officials, engineers, and VIPs between the Harvard plant, Motorola's corporate headquarters in Schaumburg, and Chicago-area airports like O'Hare International. It symbolized the immense scale, corporate power, and logistical sophistication of Motorola's operations during the peak of the 1990s mobile phone boom. The 'CSG' in the name stood for the Cellular Subscriber Group, the division responsible for the products made at the facility.

Effectively zero. There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the heliport. Its existence was exclusively tied to the specific operational needs of the Motorola corporation at that site. Since the facility is no longer a major corporate headquarters or a high-tech manufacturing hub requiring executive helicopter transport, there is no practical or economic justification to reactivate it.