The most important theme of this story is the unbridled corruption that started with the landfill decades before it became a mall. The impact from this site af

The most important theme of this story is the unbridled corruption that started with the landfill decades before it became a mall. The impact from this site affects the local community that government officials in Ohio could not care enough to represent (read as poor and minority). Then the corruption that allowed the mall project to go ahead. After all that has happened it is still not condemned and designated as a superfund site. Now developers still want to repurpose the site and the government officials in Ohio are not blocking this. Ohio, have you no pride? Ignore the pedantic trolling over what was sinking: the land or the buildings. It is meaningless.