The 2,000 companies located in SODO generate close to 20% of the City of Seattle’s entire revenue base. The SODO Business Association works for each and every one of these businesses to create and encourage a positive working environment and expand our influence with city hall and the many governments that regulate business here.

 

SODO has been generating attention and change since 1993 and today we remain committed to our active agenda to improving protect how we do business. Our officers and members sit on over 40 civic committees, panels and task forces. Together our members are standing up to key issues that affect all of our businesses and SODO's vitality .

 

SODO is a non-profit neighborhood business organization connecting business with government and empowering them to work together. Board members are elected each year at the annual meeting and serve a term of 2-3 years. SODO’s officers and members currently sit on over 40 civic committees, panels and task forces standing up for key issues that affect this important district.

 

The board has a number of standing committees and forms ad hoc committees based on current issues. Standing committees include board members as well as interested members of the public:

• Transportation Management Association (TMA)
• Transportation Committee
• Land Use Committee
• Membership Committee
• Public Safety Committee
• District Council (Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods)
• Parking and Access Review Committee (PARC) (City of Seattle)
• Community Partnership Forum (Public Stadium Authority)
• Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle (MIC)
• Freight Mobility Committee

 

Mike Peringer, President

 

In 1993, Mike Peringer and other community leaders brought a voice to Seattle’s industrial area by creating an association that would address the emerging needs and concerns of the region’s most important manufacturing center. The SODO Business Association has grown from a handful to nearly 300 companies that today holds the respect and has the visibility of a district that generates almost 20% of Seattle’s revenue base.

Mike Peringer is a longtime Seattle advertising executive. For the past 25 years, he has been marketing and sales director for Process Heating Company, a pioneer SODO business established in 1947, to manufacture electric heating systems for industrial uses. Today, the company supplies patented heating sytems worldwide. Mike is a veteran in the industry and former boardmember of the National Asphalt Pavement Association. In addition, Mike is one of the founders of the Manufacturing Industrial Council (MIC), winner of the 2002 Citizen of the Year Award from the Seattle Police Department and a recipient of the prestigious 2003 Jefferson Award for his dedication as founder of ArtWorks, a non-profit organization empowering youth through the creation of public art. ArtWorks created the Urban Art Corridor that encompasses the murals lining the 5th Avenue busway in SODO. By providing employment, guidance, volunteer and entrepreneurial opportunities, ArtWorks improves young lives as well as the surrounding community. In the past nine years, ArtWorks has created over 1,500 murals that also enrich schools, parks, businesses, and construction sites and has provided mentoring, arts education and job training to over 6,000 at risk kids.

Mike is also a winner of the Sustainable Seattle Social Justice Award, KOMO-TV’s Hometown Hero Award, the Youth Achievement Award from the Youth Opportunities Council and the Anti-Graffiti Award from Seattle Public Utilities for his continued work with ArtWorks and SODO.

Mike is a former chairman of both the South and West Precincts’ Advisory Councils for the Seattle Police Department. A number of his recent community service endeavors include membership on the Duwamish District Council, the MIC, and the Duwamish Transportation Management Association. Over the years Mike has been a member of more than 100 different civic committees.

Mike Peringer | President
Mike@processheating.com
PROCESS HEATING COMPANY
2732 Third Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206-292-7449
F: 206-682-1582

 

Rick Jay | Vice President
Rick@processheating.com
PROCESS HEATING COMPANY
P.O. Box 84585
Seattle, WA 98124
P: 206-682-3414
F: 206-682-1582

 

Gordon Meyer
gordonm@benscleaner.com
BEN'S CLEANER SALES
2221 4th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206-622-4262
F: 206-622-4560

 

Bill Oseran
Oseranwm@msn.com
TRIO
2030 Dexter Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98019
P: 206-948-1414

 

Jeff Long
jeffl@pcf.com
PACIFIC COAST FEATHER
P.O.Box 80385
Seattle, WA 98108
P: 206-624-1057

 

Thomas Marx
tmarx@fortunebankwa.com
FORTUNE BANK
1201 3rd Avenue, Suite 700
Seattle, WA 98101
P: 206-254-7275
F: 206-254-0869

 

Tom Posey
tom.posey@cbre.com
CBRE
1420 5th Avenue Suite 1700
Seattle, WA 98101
P: 206-292-6132
F: 206-292-6033

 

Jack Eckrem
jle@pobox.com
EVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES
1700 Airport Way S.
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206 223 3644
F: 206 223 1482

 

Mark Ward
MWard@urbanadd.com
URBANADD
1936 1st Avenue South,
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206 274 8020

 

Lorraine Goldberg
Lorraineg@rhbrown.com
R.H. BROWN
12 S. Idaho Street,
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206 624 3100
F: 206 682 7469

 

Terry Thompson
Terry@urbanenoteca.com
URBAN ENOTENCA
4130 First Avenue South,
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206 467 9463
F: 206 420 8360

 

Don Loeb
Dkloeb@adcoproperties.com
ADCO PROPERTIES
2000 Fairview E.
Seattle, WA 98102
P: 206 622 7311

 

Shavon Starfire
Shavon.starfire@ushworks.com
U.S. HEALTH WORKS
3223 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
P: 206 498 5928
F: 661 678 4649