SoBro's Commercial Pest Control Specialists
From Public Greens and Foundry Provisions up to 54th Street, from College Avenue east to Pennsylvania and the Sherman strip — SoBro's indie restaurants, boutique retail, salons, and small offices run on tight footprints and older brick bones. Our programs are built for that reality, not for big-box kitchens.
- ✓ Licensed & Insured
- ✓ Marion County Technicians
- ✓ Aprehend® Certified
- ✓ 100% Commercial Focus
We service the Penn-Sherman strip and the College corridor — storefront by storefront.
SoBro is one of the most character-dense commercial pockets in Indianapolis. The walkable strip along Pennsylvania and Sherman between 49th and 54th runs indie restaurants, coffee roasters, bakeries, and boutique retail in buildings that were built before World War II. The College Avenue spine carries a different rhythm — small offices, fitness studios, salons, and the mid-century commercial blocks around 49th Street. And the walk-up flats stacked above ground-floor retail on every corridor add a multifamily layer most pest operators aren't set up to handle.
ProTech was built to operate exactly here. We handle kitchen roach programs in the 400-square-foot back-of-house setups the SoBro strip is known for, mouse exclusion on pre-1940 brick storefronts where mice come in through every utility penetration, drain fly source work in the clustered restaurant drains, and Aprehend® bed bug treatment in the flats above retail without pulling units offline. We know the difference between a basement-served 1920s building and a slab-built 1960s storefront — and why it matters for ant pressure.
We're an owner-operated, commercial-only shop. Your SoBro restaurant, coffee shop, salon, boutique, or small office gets the same in-house ProTech technician every visit. Notes carry forward. An owner you can text. No call center, no rotating subs, no upsell scripts.
Built around the strip's actual commercial mix.
Indie restaurants. Boutique retail. Coffee roasters. Salons and boutique fitness. Small offices. Walk-up flats over storefronts. The verticals that define SoBro are the ones we've built ProTech around.
Penn-Sherman strip restaurants, College Avenue dining. Tight-footprint kitchens where German roach programs have to work around 30-seat back-of-house setups and shared prep walls.
SoBro coffee operators from Foundry Provisions-area roasters to neighborhood cafes. Pantry pest, fruit fly, and ant programs that run clean around dawn prep.
SoBro's indie boutiques, home goods, and specialty retail along Penn, Sherman, and Cornell. Pantry pest, stored-product moth, and rodent programs sized for small-footprint retail.
Penn-Sherman salons, College Avenue barbers, boutique hair studios. Discreet ant and occasional mouse programs that never disrupt chair time.
Pilates, yoga, barre, and small-group fitness in the mid-century commercial blocks. Low-toxicity IPM appropriate for client-facing movement studios.
The second-floor creative offices, design studios, and professional services scattered across SoBro. Quiet programs that run during off-hours.
The flats stacked above every SoBro storefront. Aprehend® bed bug treatment that keeps units bookable and coordinated common-area programs with ground-floor retail.
SoBro bakeries, confectioners, and specialty food producers. Stored-product pest and rodent exclusion programs sized for daily-production operations.
We service every commercial vertical in the strip — juice bars, ice-cream shops, tattoo studios, framing shops, record stores, art galleries, dance studios, recording studios, and event spaces. If you operate a commercial address between 49th and 54th, College to Pennsylvania, we can help.
Every commercial pest service SoBro operators need.
All commercial — no residential side-jobs. So when a mouse runs across your dining room during Saturday brunch, you reach a real commercial tech, not an answering service.
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 SoBro's walk-up flats above retail and small multifamily buildings — where you can't take units offline for 48 hours and residents share hallways, laundry, and mechanical walls with ground-floor commercial tenants.
- ✓No room evacuation required
- ✓Kills eggs + adult bed bugs
- ✓Protection lasts up to 3 months
- ✓Discreet for residents, staff, and guests
All-pest commercial programs sized for tight SoBro footprints — indie restaurants, boutiques, salons, and small offices.
View service →Prevention-first programs built around walk-up commercial, shared-wall retail, and the older brick bones that define the strip.
View service →Pre-1940 brick storefront exclusion — sealing utility penetrations, foundation gaps, and mortar voids that older SoBro buildings are full of.
View service →German roach gel baiting in tight prep kitchens. Coordinated treatment across stacked tenants when one operator triggers a cascade in a shared basement.
View service →Drain fly source-tracing in the clustered restaurant drains along Penn and Sherman. Fruit fly elimination in coffee shops and bakeries.
View service →Odorous house ants and pavement ants dominate SoBro basement-served buildings. Non-repellent baiting that actually clears the colony.
View service →Pre-war wood-frame buildings along the corridor still carry active termite pressure — monitoring, soil treatments, and retrofit programs.
View service →Pigeon and starling exclusion for SoBro storefront awnings, parapets, and alley-side trash corrals. Spikes, netting, and slope deterrents.
View service →Bats, squirrels, and raccoons in older walk-up commercial buildings with attic-level voids. Structural exclusion, not relocation.
View service →Indian meal moth, grain beetles, and cigarette beetles in SoBro bakery, coffee-roasting, and specialty-food storage.
View service →Pre-inspection sanitation audits before Marion County Public Health Department visits. Conducive-condition write-ups sized for small operators.
View service →Saturday-brunch roach sightings, pre-dinner-service mouse drops, weekend bed bug calls in walk-up flats — commercial response when you need it.
View service →What SoBro operators actually face.
Pest pressure on the 49th-to-54th strip — what we see on service calls, by venue type and by block.
SoBro kitchens are small. Prep lines back into equipment stacks, and mechanical voids behind cook lines harbor populations that quickly cascade to the ice machine and line-cooler next door. Gel bait in the voids, not spray on the line.
Older SoBro buildings have original mortar, brick foundations with gaps, and utility penetrations no one has touched in 60 years. Mice enter through every one of them every fall. Exclusion is the fix — not just snap traps on the floor.
OHAs come up through basement concrete cracks, kick-plates, and expansion joints in the older SoBro buildings. They form supercolonies — wrong product fragments them and makes it worse. Non-repellent bait, right formulation.
Drain fly biofilm in floor drains and coffee-shop sink traps is the #1 fly call we get from SoBro. Most operators spray, flies come back in a week. We brush, foam, and bio-treat the actual breeding source.
SoBro walk-up flats turn over fast and share hallways with commercial ground floors. Aprehend® lets us treat units without pulling them offline or creating tenant disruption for the restaurant downstairs.
Pigeon loafing on awnings and parapet ledges along Pennsylvania and Sherman drives sanitation and slip-hazard issues. Spikes and netting beat sonic deterrents every time.
Pre-war SoBro wood-frame structures with moisture-compromised sills or trim drive carpenter ant pressure. Structural inspection and moisture fix comes before product.
Late-summer wasp pressure on SoBro patio operators and outdoor seating — yellowjackets at trash and paper wasps in parapet voids. Removal scheduled around service windows.
SoBro's pest calendar runs ant pressure heavy April through October (especially OHAs through older basement-served buildings), drain fly activity steady all year in the restaurant cluster, bed bug calls light but year-round in the walk-ups, and mouse pressure spiking October through February as the pre-1940 brick buildings lose heat through the same penetrations mice slip through. Planning service against that rhythm is how we keep SoBro operators ahead of issues.
What SoBro 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 tight prep kitchens, shared basements, and walk-up flats over retail are built for SoBro operators, not homeowners.
Owner-Operated
You deal with an owner, not a regional manager three states away. Text the same person every time. Decisions happen on the phone, not through a dispatcher queue.
Aprehend® Bed Bug Specialist
We carry one of the few active Aprehend® certifications in the Indy metro. For SoBro walk-up flats and small multifamily buildings that need discreet bed bug elimination without unit downtime, this matters.
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 you're scored.
No Subcontractors
Every SoBro service call is handled by an in-house ProTech technician. Same face, same notes, same accountability. No rotating sub roster, no pass-through labor.
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.
How we protect your SoBro business.
On-Site Inspection
We walk your space — prep line, dish pit, basement, dry storage, dumpster pad, roof access, mechanical penetrations, and the building envelope. Map conducive conditions specific to your SoBro location.
Custom Pest Plan
Treatment selection, service frequency, and reporting format built around your operating hours, your venue type, and the specific pressure your SoBro address actually faces.
Targeted Treatment
Low-toxicity, targeted products in the right places — not fogged across your dining room or chair station. 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 strip.
Our basement was sending odorous house ants up through the kick-plates every April. The last company just sprayed the baseboards and the ants came back worse. ProTech ran non-repellent bait at the colony entries, cleared them in three weeks, and the baseboards stayed product-free.
Pre-1930 building, kept getting mice every fall. ProTech did an exclusion walk, found six utility penetrations our previous company had never even flagged, sealed them, and we haven't had a mouse in the dining room for two seasons.
We had bed bugs in one of our walk-up flats over the shop. Aprehend® meant we didn't have to tell the tenant to move furniture out for a day. It was a 45-minute treatment, the unit stayed occupied, and the problem was gone in two weeks.
SoBro sub-areas & nearby north-side neighborhoods.
From SoBro we cover the entire 49th-to-54th strip plus the surrounding north-side Indy neighborhoods — all parented under our broader Indianapolis service area.
- Pennsylvania Avenue Strip
- Sherman Avenue Corridor
- College Avenue (49th–54th)
- 49th Street Commercial
- 52nd Street
- 54th Street Corridor
- Public Greens / Foundry Provisions area
- Cornell Avenue
- Carrollton Avenue
- Winthrop Avenue
- Ruckle Street
- Guilford Avenue (south)
- Park Avenue
- New Jersey Street
- Central Avenue (north)
- Broadway Street (north)
- 50th Street
- 51st Street
- Washington Boulevard
- Delaware Street (north)
Commercial pest questions — SoBro edition.
My SoBro restaurant shares a basement with two other tenants. Can you coordinate treatment?
Why do I keep getting mice every fall even though I have sealed the obvious holes?
My boutique has food products — chocolates, specialty crackers, bakery items. Can you treat around them?
I have a walk-up flat above my retail space. If we get bed bugs, does that shut down the shop?
Are your treatments safe for boutique fitness studios, salons, and yoga studios?
Can you service our SoBro coffee shop early, before we open?
Why are drain flies such a recurring problem in the Penn-Sherman restaurant cluster?
Talk to a SoBro 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 SoBro inspection
- ✓Before-open or after-close service available
- ✓Marion County Health Dept-ready documentation