Holy Cross & Cottage Home Commercial Pest Control
From East Michigan Street corner stores to Cottage Home kitchens, the light industrial brick pockets along English Avenue, and the walk-ups stacked above ground-floor retail — we service the working commercial fabric east of downtown that the national chains treat like an afterthought.
- ✓ Licensed & Insured
- ✓ Marion County Technicians
- ✓ Aprehend® Certified
- ✓ 100% Commercial Focus
We service the block east of Mass Ave — door by door.
Holy Cross and Cottage Home don't operate like the rest of downtown-adjacent Indy. East of the I-65/70 split, the commercial fabric is small: a one-cook cafe on East Michigan, a light industrial shop doing small-batch leatherwork in a century-old brick building, a corner market serving the block, a walk-up with four apartments stacked over a ground-floor salon. Every one of these operators runs lean, watches margin, and can't afford a pest program built for a national chain's mid-market restaurant template.
The pest pressure over here is specific. Interstate embankments twenty yards from the back door keep Norway rat populations active year-round. Pre-1920s brick foundations let mice in through every mortar gap. Older multifamily kitchens with original cast-iron drains and shared walls breed German cockroach cascades the moment one unit skips service. Bed bug calls come in steady from the walk-up flats — high turnover, visitor traffic from the interstate exits, no on-site management.
We're a small, owner-operated commercial-only team. Your Holy Cross cafe, corner market, light industrial shop, or walk-up building gets the same in-house ProTech tech every visit. Small-shop pricing built around small-shop reality. No call center, no rotating subcontractors, no upsell scripts.
Built around the neighborhood's actual commercial mix.
Small kitchens. Light industrial brick buildings. Corner retail. Walk-up multifamily. Faith-based event spaces. The real commercial fabric of Holy Cross and Cottage Home — not a template that was built for a mall.
East Michigan Street cafes, Cottage Home kitchens, one-cook breakfast spots. German roach programs built around tiny prep lines with no back-of-house to hide treatment prep.
Pre-war brick manufacturing buildings along English Avenue and the rail corridor — leatherworkers, small-batch fabrication, print shops, wood shops. Rodent exclusion on old dock doors and utility penetrations.
Tight-footprint corner markets, smoke shops, and specialty retail. Pantry pest, stored-product moth, and small-space rodent programs.
Pre-war walk-ups stacked over ground-floor commercial — the dominant multifamily type in Holy Cross. Aprehend® bed bug programs that keep units rentable.
Holy Cross Catholic Church, neighborhood church halls, event-rental sanctuaries. Rodent exclusion in old foundations, wedding-weekend pest prevention, kitchen IPM for event halls.
Small-portfolio Holy Cross and Cottage Home landlords — the operator who owns four walk-ups and the corner retail. Coordinated common-area and tenant-space programs.
Neighborhood non-profits, community centers, converted brick storefront offices. IPM built around tight operating budgets without sacrificing documentation.
Ground-floor salons, barber shops, small gyms, and tattoo studios in the storefront bases of walk-up buildings. Discreet ant and roach programs that don't disrupt clients.
We service every commercial vertical east of Mass Ave — ghost kitchens, food trucks, coffee roasters, cottage manufacturers, recording studios, print shops, and converted church event venues. If you operate a commercial address east of I-65/70 and west of Rural Street, we can help.
Every commercial pest service Holy Cross operators need.
Commercial-only pest management. So when the corner market opens at 6am and you spot a mouse in the aisle, you reach a real commercial tech who can be out after close — not an answering service routing you to a residential technician.
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 Holy Cross walk-up multifamily — where bed bug discoveries are regular, turnover is fast, and landlords can't afford 48 hours of unit downtime for heat. We apply a thin, near-invisible band, bed bugs walk through it, done.
- ✓No room evacuation required
- ✓Kills eggs + adult bed bugs
- ✓Protection lasts up to 3 months
- ✓Discreet for tenants and ground-floor retail below
All-pest commercial programs sized for tight Holy Cross footprints — cafes, corner stores, light industrial shops, walk-ups.
View service →Prevention-first programs built around old brick buildings, shared alley dumpsters, and interstate-adjacent rodent pressure.
View service →Interstate-embankment rat programs. Exterior baiting along I-65/70 frontage, mortar-gap exclusion on pre-war brick, alley dumpster station maintenance.
View service →German roach gel baiting in walk-up kitchens with original cast-iron plumbing. Coordinated treatment when one unit triggers a shared-wall cascade.
View service →Drain fly source-tracing in old basement-served kitchens. House fly programs for alley-facing back doors and dumpster proximity.
View service →Odorous house ants and pavement ants dominate Holy Cross commercial buildings — non-repellent baiting that clears supercolonies, not spray that fragments them.
View service →Pre-1920s wood-framed walk-ups and brick buildings with wood sill plates see active subterranean termite pressure. Monitoring and targeted soil treatment.
View service →Pigeon exclusion on old industrial rooflines, starling nests in ornamental brickwork, sparrow colonies in open signage. Netting and spikes, not sound deterrents.
View service →Bats, raccoons, and squirrels in the attic spaces of pre-war walk-ups and old industrial brick. Structural exclusion with one-way doors — not relocation traps.
View service →Indian meal moth, grain beetles, and cigarette beetles in corner-store dry goods, small-batch bakeries, and food co-ops.
View service →Pre-inspection sanitation audits before Marion County Public Health Department visits. Conducive-condition write-ups for old buildings with inherited problems.
View service →Tenant-reported bed bugs in a walk-up, pre-open roach sighting at a cafe, rodent in a corner-store cooler — commercial emergency response from a real technician.
View service →What Holy Cross operators actually face.
Pest pressure for the Holy Cross and Cottage Home commercial fabric — what we see on service calls, by building type and by corridor.
The interstate embankments are a permanent Norway rat harborage. Populations push into Holy Cross commercial buildings year-round — worse Oct–Feb when outdoor cold drives them inside. Exterior baiting on the frontage side of buildings matters more than interior traps.
Every brick building in Holy Cross older than 1920 has mortar-gap entry points. Mice find them within 48 hours of outdoor cold. Sealing is a multi-visit project — one pass never gets them all.
Older walk-ups with shared cast-iron plumbing stacks are the #1 German roach driver in the neighborhood. When one unit skips service, the cascade moves up and down the stack within weeks. Multi-unit coordinated treatment matters.
High tenant turnover, interstate-adjacent traveler traffic, and no on-site management at most Holy Cross walk-ups drive consistent bed bug pressure. Aprehend® lets small landlords keep units rentable.
OHAs form supercolonies in the cracks and voids of pre-war brick. Wrong product (repellent spray) fragments the colony into multiple budding populations and makes the problem worse — we only use non-repellent baits here.
Basement-served kitchens with original cast-iron floor drains breed drain flies in biofilm that surface spray never reaches. We brush, foam, and bio-enzymatically treat the actual breeding source.
Pigeon loafing on flat industrial rooflines, starlings nesting in decorative brickwork and soffit gaps on pre-war walk-ups. Netting, spikes, and soffit exclusion beat sound deterrents long-term.
Spring swarms (March–May) reveal active subterranean termite pressure in Holy Cross wood sill plates and storefront framing. Pre-war wood that's still in place has been accumulating exposure for a century — monitoring matters.
Holy Cross pest pressure runs rat-heavy year-round along the I-65/70 and rail corridor, mouse indoor migration peaks October through February as populations push through pre-war mortar gaps, German roach pressure stays year-round in walk-up stacks, bed bug calls from walk-ups stay steady all year with a summer bump from tenant turnover, and termite swarms reveal themselves in April-May. Planning service against that rhythm is how we keep Holy Cross operators ahead of issues — not chasing them.
What Holy Cross 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 alley dumpsters, pre-war brick, and walk-up stacks are built for Holy Cross operators, not suburban homeowners.
Built for Old Brick
Pre-1920s brick buildings don't respond to the treatment templates national chains use on new-construction suburban restaurants. Our Holy Cross protocols assume mortar gaps, cast-iron plumbing, wood sill plates, and shared mechanical walls from day one.
Aprehend® Bed Bug Specialist
We carry one of the few active Aprehend® certifications in the Indy metro. For Holy Cross walk-up landlords who can't afford 48 hours of unit downtime for heat treatment, this is the difference between keeping a unit rentable and losing a month of rent.
Marion County Health Dept-Ready
Every service generates the documentation Marion County Public Health Department inspectors actually want to see. Pull it up in two clicks the moment a cafe or corner store is scored.
No Subcontractors
Every Holy Cross service call is handled by an in-house ProTech technician. Same face, same notes, same accountability. No regional manager three states away with a rotating sub roster.
Small-Shop Pricing Honesty
We don't try to sell the light-industrial leatherworker on the same program we run for a 200-seat downtown restaurant. Holy Cross operators get programs sized for small-shop reality — and we tell you the truth about what you actually need.
How we protect your Holy Cross business.
On-Site Inspection
We walk your space — prep line, basement, alley exit, dumpster pad, roof access, mortar joints on the frontage side, interstate-facing exterior. Map conducive conditions specific to your Holy Cross building.
Custom Pest Plan
Treatment selection, service frequency, and reporting format built around your operating hours, your vertical, and the specific pressure your address actually faces — including the building's age and the block's commercial mix.
Targeted Treatment
Low-toxicity, targeted products in the right places — not fogged across a cafe prep line or a walk-up kitchen. Scheduled around your operating window.
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 — and you've got the paperwork when an inspector walks in.
Commercial operators across the east-of-downtown corridor.
We had mice coming through what the previous pest company swore was sealed foundation. ProTech walked it with me, pointed at three mortar gaps on the interstate side I'd never noticed, sealed them, and we haven't seen a mouse since. They explained why instead of just putting out more traps.
A tenant in one of our walk-ups reported bed bugs on a Sunday night. ProTech ran Aprehend® on Monday morning without us having to bag anything or evacuate the unit. Tenant stayed in place, problem cleared, and we didn't lose rent.
Our building is 1906 brick and a light industrial shop below us. Every other pest company told us we'd never fix the cockroach problem because of the shared plumbing. ProTech coordinated treatment with the shop downstairs, and six weeks later we were clean.
Holy Cross sub-areas & nearby east-of-downtown neighborhoods.
From Holy Cross we cover the east-of-Mass-Ave commercial fabric plus the surrounding near-east side Indy neighborhoods — all parented under our broader Indianapolis service area.
- Cottage Home Historic District
- East Michigan Street Corridor
- East New York Street Corridor
- English Avenue Industrial Strip
- Holy Cross Catholic Parish Block
- East Vermont Street
- East St. Clair Street
- Highland Avenue
- Dorman Street
- Oriental Street
- Arsenal Avenue
- I-65/70 Frontage Commercial
- East 10th Street (west of Rural)
- East Ohio Street Corridor
- Pine Street
- Spruce Street
- Rural Street (west side)
- Cruse Street
- North Highland Avenue
- East Market Street (east of Mass Ave)
Commercial pest questions — Holy Cross edition.
Why are we getting rats even though we've never had them before?
Our walk-up has four units stacked over a cafe. Can you treat the cockroach problem without shutting down the cafe?
We're a one-cook cafe on East Michigan. Do you have pricing that works for operators our size?
Can you handle bed bugs in a walk-up when we don't have an on-site manager?
Our church hall hosts weddings and funerals. Can you time service around events?
We run a small leatherworking shop in a 1910 brick building. Do we really need a pest program?
Our corner market shares a dumpster with three other tenants. Who deals with that?
Talk to a Holy Cross commercial pest specialist.
Tell us your building, your vertical, 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 Holy Cross inspection
- ✓Programs sized for small-shop operators
- ✓Marion County Health Dept-ready documentation