Pabst Farms Mall Delay Continues; Why Did The State Spend $9 Million Already On The Mall's Interstate Interchange?

The Pabst Farms Mall groundbreaking isn't happening - - there isn't even a development plan filed with the City of Oconomowoc yet - - so tell me again why the state Department of Transportation already shoveled $9 million for land acquisition and other costs for an Interchange to the suspended mall project?

Was this a way to get some money to Pabst Farms, where subdivisions have been suspended, too?