Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
From the outside, the hulking former Chalmers Knitting Co. buildings on the city’s South Side are eyesores. Inside, the view isn’t much better; broken glass and debris litter rotted floorboards, the result of leaking roofs at the abandoned mill complex. But developer Uri Kaufman sees the structures differently.
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