High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beecher`s Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheesemaker and retail shop based in the Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.. The company was founded by Kurt Beecher Dammeier in 2003, and was opened in the Pike Place Market after Dammeier obtained a storefront lease in the Market, which are rarely available. Because Dammeier had never been a cheesemaker, he sought out the assistance of Brad Sinko, who helped run a family cheese-making business in Oregon. A second location was opened in 2011 in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.