Coffee Plant/Second Ward | |||||||||||
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| Light rail station | |||||||||||
 Coffee Plant Second Ward Rail station from the west part of the platform. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Harrisburg Blvd and York Street Houston, Texas | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°44′51.2″N 95°20′24.5″W / 29.747556°N 95.340139°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | METRO | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Green Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Surface | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | May 23, 2015 | ||||||||||
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Coffee Plant/Second Ward is a light rail station in Houston, Texas on the METRORail system. It is served by the Green Line and is located on Harrisburg Boulevard between York and Hutcheson streets. The station is named for the Second Ward neighborhood as well as a former Maxwell House coffee manufacturing plant. Maxwell House began operations at the plant in 1948 and sold the plant to Maximus Coffee Group in 2006,[1] which operated the plant under the Atlantic Coffee Solutions brand until 2018.[2]
Coffee Plant/Second Ward station opened on May [3] 23, 2015, as part of the Green Line's first phase.[4]
- ^ Moreno, Jenalia (8 December 2006). "Maxwell House plant being sold". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ Brown, Nick (8 July 2014). "Ecom Rebrands Houston Subsidiary Maximus As Atlantic Coffee Solutions". Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. Daily Coffee News.
- ^ Takahashi, Paul (2018-04-19). "East End coffee plant to roast its last bean this summer". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Begley, Dug (May 22, 2015). "Metro's new rail lines open Saturday". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved March 18, 2016.