Cleaning Services in Acme, MI

Acme is the lodging-and-resort corridor of this market, and it is close enough to the anchor to be part of its everyday geography. Acme Township holds 4,456 people, up from 4,375 in 2010, and Acme itself is an unincorporated community inside it. The township sits about five miles east of Traverse City on US 31, on the eastern shore of the East Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, and its southwestern portion is part of Traverse City's urban area. US 31 and M-72 both run through.

This is where the market's commercial work concentrates. Grand Traverse Resort and Spa is here -- 550 full-time employees, the fourth-largest employer in the county, and a signature tower that has been the tallest building in the county since 1986. Around it runs a lodging strip on US 31, and the township also holds part of the Grand Traverse Reservation. If you are responsible for a building on this corridor, the cleaning problem is rarely the cleaning; it is finding a company that will work around your hours instead of through them.

So we scope commercial work in Acme the way we scope it anywhere: a free walk-through first, then a written scope of work naming what happens nightly, what happens weekly and what happens monthly, and then the same result every visit. Offices and professional suites, retail and restaurant space, lodging housekeeping support, and janitorial service on a fixed schedule with one point of contact. Most customers on this corridor have us in before opening or after closing.

The rest of Acme is farmland and shoreline. Cherry growing is still real here, the bay is on the west side of the township, and the housing runs from year-round township households near the city end to bay-side properties out along the water. That gives us ordinary recurring house cleaning on a weekly, biweekly or monthly schedule, seasonal deep cleans, and guest changeovers for the properties on this corridor that host visitors -- a market where stays are short and the changeovers stack up through July and August.

Because Acme is five miles from downtown Traverse City, none of this carries a travel premium or a scheduling caveat. It is the same morning as an address in East Bay Township, which is to say it is the easy part of our week.