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New Land Enterprises’ Owner on Development

by Sonya Jongsma Knauss / photos by Vince Bushell

With an unmistakably Russian accent, sitting at the kitchen table of a condo he built, sold, then later bought and lives in, [Boris Gokhman] describes how he got from there to here. He seems perfectly comfortable with his Milwaukee condo lifestyle. On leaving Ukraine, he says: “It was the right time to leave… I didn’t believe in what was going on there. The system was not in place.” He is a believer in what he builds, and his success shows he is adept at using “the system.”

By the system, he is referring to capitalism and the way things work here.

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Doctors at Your Door and a Face-Lift for Baby Park

The Riverwest Neighborhood Association met at 7 p.m. on August 12, 2003, at 604 E. Center St. It was announced at the meeting that interns from Columbia St. Mary’s Clinic are accompanying Community Partner Mark McInerney on his door-to-door route in the neighborhood. …. The neighborhood group working with Marina Lee approved a design for Baby Park at Bremen and Burleigh. …. Four RNA committees offered reports.

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Brigitte Hardick

by Peter Schmidtke / photograph by Peter DiAntoni

On a sunny Sunday morning over coffee on Downer Avenue, 23-year-old Hardrick laid out her plans for the future. Even though it’s sweltering outside on this day, and it’s her day off from work, she wears long pants and a pin-striped shirt.