Bates-Hendricks' Commercial Pest Control Specialists
From Calvin Fletcher's south, the Shelby Street indie kitchens, the breweries and taprooms, the brick walk-up flats off East and Morris, and the creative-class small offices filling out the old industrial footprints — we service the operators driving the Bates-Hendricks commercial revival. Built for old buildings, chef-owned realities, and walk-up rental turnover.
- ✓ Licensed & Insured
- ✓ Marion County Technicians
- ✓ Aprehend® Certified
- ✓ 100% Commercial Focus
We service the indie strip, the brewery row, and the walk-ups — block by block.
Bates-Hendricks is one of the fastest-shifting commercial neighborhoods in Indianapolis. The indie-operator density climbing up Shelby from Prospect, the coffee and brewery pocket anchored by Calvin Fletcher's south and the new-guard taprooms, the chef-owned kitchens filling out repurposed commercial storefronts, the walk-up brick flats stacked along East, Morris, and Woodlawn, and the small creative-class offices moving into old industrial footprints — every one of those operators needs a service partner who understands how old south-side brick actually behaves.
ProTech was built for this kind of operator. We schedule coffee shops before 6am open, run brewery drain fly programs overnight when the taproom is dark, handle chef-owned kitchens during the 3pm lull between lunch and dinner, manage the bed bug turnover that walk-up landlords see as leases roll over in August, and coordinate German roach treatment in shared-wall buildings where a single untreated kitchen cascades to three neighbors. Most national chains don't route enough techs south of I-70 to handle this mix — we base weeks around it.
We're a small, owner-operated commercial-only team. Your Bates-Hendricks café, taproom, kitchen, retail storefront, or walk-up rental portfolio gets the same in-house ProTech tech every visit, with notes that carry forward and an owner you can text. No call center, no rotating subcontractors, no upsell scripts.
Built around the neighborhood's actual commercial mix.
Indie coffee and restaurants. Breweries and taprooms. Walk-up multifamily landlords. Small offices in converted industrial buildings. Neighborhood churches and service retail. The verticals driving Bates-Hendricks are the verticals we built ProTech around.
Calvin Fletcher's south, neighborhood indie coffee roasters, and the cafés filling out Shelby. Pre-6am service, drain fly programs, and pantry pest control sized for small-batch operators.
Small-batch breweries and taprooms anchoring the south revival. Drain fly source-tracing, fruit fly elimination in packaging lines, grain-pest IPM in storage.
Independent kitchens in converted storefronts — tight prep lines, shared mechanical walls with neighboring tenants, and German roach pressure driven by older building stock.
Pre-1900 and early-1900s brick walk-ups along East, Morris, Woodlawn, and Lexington. Aprehend® bed bug programs that keep units rentable during treatment.
Converted industrial footprints housing architecture firms, design studios, attorneys, and agencies. Discreet IPM programs scheduled around client hours.
Shelby Street specialty retail, neighborhood vintage, bookstores, and salons. Pantry pest and rodent programs sized for narrow old-brick storefronts.
Neighborhood church buildings — older brick, basement fellowship halls, classroom wings. Low-toxicity programs appropriate for volunteer-facing spaces.
Auto-services, barber shops, salons, and neighborhood service businesses. Ant, mouse, and general-pest programs built for older brick commercial footprints.
We service every commercial vertical in the 46203 south historic pocket — bakeries, ghost kitchens, food trucks, event spaces, galleries, dental practices, medical clinics, and nonprofit offices. If you operate a commercial address in Bates-Hendricks, we can help.
Every commercial pest service Bates-Hendricks operators need.
All commercial — no residential side-jobs. So when your 6am coffee open is coming and you see a mouse on the line, you reach a real commercial tech, not an answering service routing through three time zones.
Commercial Bed Bug Treatment with Aprehend®
Aprehend® is an EPA-registered biopesticide that eliminates bed bugs and their eggs without the prep, evacuation, or heat treatment traditional methods require. Critical for Bates-Hendricks walk-up landlords where August lease turnover drives consistent bed bug discoveries. We can keep units leasable through treatment — essential in a market where a vacant unit for 48 hours is real lost rent.
- ✓No room evacuation required
- ✓Kills eggs + adult bed bugs
- ✓Protection lasts up to 3 months
- ✓Works in older brick/plaster walk-ups
All-pest commercial programs sized for narrow Bates-Hendricks footprints — coffee shops, kitchens, taprooms, and small offices.
View service →Prevention-first programs built around indie operators, shared-wall realities, and pre-6am open schedules.
View service →Alley-dumpster and foundation exclusion on pre-1900 brick. Tamper-resistant stations, utility-penetration sealing, coordinated adjacent-tenant baiting.
View service →German roach gel baiting in shared-wall kitchens. Coordinated treatment across stacked tenants when one operator triggers a cascade.
View service →Drain fly source-tracing in coffee bar wells and brewery drains. Fruit fly elimination in taproom packaging areas. House fly programs for dumpster-adjacent retail.
View service →Odorous house ants and pavement ants are the dominant pressure in Bates-Hendricks brick foundations — non-repellent baiting that clears colonies instead of fragmenting them.
View service →Older brick commercial with wood-frame additions and damp basements drives consistent termite pressure — monitoring, soil treatments, and retrofit bait systems.
View service →Pigeon and starling exclusion on storefront awnings, church eaves, and old industrial rooflines. Spikes, netting, and slope deterrents.
View service →Bats, squirrels, and raccoons in older walk-up roofs and converted industrial buildings. Structural exclusion, not relocation.
View service →Indian meal moth, grain beetles, and cigarette beetles in brewery grain storage, bakery operations, and small-batch coffee roasters.
View service →Pre-inspection sanitation audits before Marion County Public Health Department visits. Conducive-condition write-ups for older buildings.
View service →Pre-open coffee-shop mouse sightings, Saturday-morning taproom calls, weekend bed bug discoveries in walk-ups — emergency commercial response.
View service →What south historic operators actually face.
Pest pressure for the Bates-Hendricks commercial pocket — what we see on service calls, by venue type and by block.
Bates-Hendricks commercial storefronts routinely share mechanical walls with neighboring tenants and with stacked upstairs apartments. Once a cascade starts, it moves building-wide in weeks. Coordinated multi-tenant gel baiting matters more than spray frequency.
Coffee bar drains, brewery grain room floor drains, and old cast-iron restaurant drains all host biofilm that national pest companies try to knock down with sprays. We run brush, foam, and bio-enzymatic treatment on the actual breeding source — the issue clears in two visits, not five.
August lease turnover in walk-up brick flats drives the highest bed bug discovery rate in the neighborhood. Aprehend® lets us treat without pulling units out of service — critical in a market where vacancy = lost rent.
Narrow alleys with shared dumpsters behind the Shelby Street commercial strip drive consistent rat pressure. Mice push into basements through foundation gaps and sill-plate weaknesses standard in pre-1900 brick.
Pavement ants nest under old brick sidewalks and foundation slabs — you see the sand-piles along Shelby every spring. Interior ant calls are typically OHAs. Wrong product fragments colonies and makes things worse.
Loafing and roosting on awnings and the parapet ledges typical of pre-1920 commercial. Netting and slope deterrents beat sound-based solutions long-term.
The age of this neighborhood's brick stock drives carpenter ant and subterranean termite pressure — especially where wood-frame additions meet original masonry. Structural inspection matters more than surface treatment.
Late-summer wasp pressure on brewery patios and taproom exteriors — yellowjackets at trash corrals, paper wasps on old eaves. Removal scheduled around service windows.
Bates-Hendricks' pest calendar runs cockroach-heavy year-round in shared-wall kitchens, bed bug pressure peaks July through September with lease turnover, drain fly activity stays steady all year in coffee bars and brewery drains, rodent indoor migration peaks October through February, and ant pressure climbs March through June with freeze-thaw. Planning service against that rhythm keeps operators ahead of issues — not chasing them.
What Bates-Hendricks operators get with us — and don't get with national chains.
100% Commercial
No residential side-jobs. Every hour of our week is commercial pest management — so the judgment calls on coffee drains, shared-wall kitchens, and walk-up turnover are built for Bates-Hendricks operators, not homeowners.
Pre-Open Coffee & Late-Night Brewery Service
We schedule coffee shops before 6am open and breweries overnight after taproom close. Your cafe gets serviced when no customers or staff are on the floor — and your taproom drains get a real treatment when the packaging line is dark.
Aprehend® Bed Bug Specialist
We carry one of the few active Aprehend® certifications in the Indy metro. For walk-up landlords in Bates-Hendricks, this is the product that keeps units leasable through treatment.
Marion County Health Dept-Ready
Every service generates the documentation Marion County Public Health Department inspectors want — pulled up in two clicks when a Shelby Street café gets a surprise walk-through.
No Subcontractors
Every Bates-Hendricks service call is handled by an in-house ProTech technician. Same face, same notes, same accountability — not a rotating sub roster coordinated from a national call center.
No Forced Contracts
We earn the account every month. You can cancel. We just think you won't — because you'll see what real commercial pest management looks like for an indie operator.
How we protect your Bates-Hendricks business.
On-Site Inspection
We walk your space — prep line, espresso bar, walk-ins, packaging area, dry storage, basement, dumpster pad, and shared-wall vulnerabilities specific to old brick commercial. Map conducive conditions specific to your Bates-Hendricks address.
Custom Pest Plan
Treatment selection, service frequency, and reporting format built around your operating hours, your venue type, and whether you're single-tenant, shared-wall, or in a mixed-use building with apartments upstairs.
Targeted Treatment
Low-toxicity, targeted products in the right places — not fogged across your service area or packaging line. Scheduled around your dead hour, not ours.
Monitoring & Reporting
Ongoing monitoring stations, every-visit documentation, trend tracking, and Marion County Health Department-ready reports. You always know what we did and why.
Commercial operators across the south historic pocket.
Our taproom drain fly issue had been chronic for over a year — the last company just kept fogging and billing us. ProTech traced it to our rinse-sink drain and the grain-room floor drain, brushed and foamed both, and we haven't had a fly call since. They scheduled the visit overnight so we didn't have to close early.
We had a bed bug discovery across two adjacent walk-up units right before the August lease rollover. ProTech ran Aprehend® across both on the same afternoon, neither tenant had to move out, and we hit our turnover date with no lost rent. That's the kind of response a walk-up landlord actually needs.
Our kitchen shares a mechanical wall with a coffee shop and the storefront next door. We'd had a roach issue for months that kept coming back. ProTech coordinated with both neighbors, treated all three spaces on the same week, and the cascade finally broke. The previous company never even asked about the adjacent tenants.
Bates-Hendricks sub-areas & nearby south-side neighborhoods.
From Bates-Hendricks we cover the south historic pocket plus the surrounding Indianapolis neighborhoods — all parented under our broader Indianapolis service area.
- Shelby Street Corridor
- East Street Corridor
- Morris Street Corridor
- Woodlawn Avenue
- Lexington Avenue
- Prospect Street South
- Terrace Avenue
- Orange Street
- Hendricks Place
- Bates Street
- Churchman Avenue
- Fletcher Avenue
- South Park Avenue
- New Jersey Street South
- Delaware Street South
- I-70 south frontage commercial
- Calvin Fletcher's District
- Union Station adjacent south
- McCarty Street corridor
- Bluff Road commercial
Commercial pest questions — Bates-Hendricks edition.
Can you service my coffee shop before 6am so we open clean?
Why do breweries and taprooms in Bates-Hendricks keep getting drain fly issues?
How do you handle bed bug turnover in Bates-Hendricks walk-up rentals without losing rent?
My Shelby Street storefront shares a mechanical wall with the next tenant — do you coordinate with them?
Do you work with small creative-class offices in converted industrial buildings?
Are your treatments safe for dogs and pets at the breweries and taprooms where customers bring them in?
How do you handle the pavement ant issue that shows up along Shelby every spring?
Talk to a Bates-Hendricks commercial pest specialist.
Tell us your venue type, your operating window, and what you're seeing — we'll put together a plan, a price, and a realistic timeline. No high-pressure sales, no call center, no forced contract.
- ✓Free on-site Bates-Hendricks inspection
- ✓Pre-open coffee & overnight brewery service available
- ✓Marion County Health Dept-ready documentation