Coffee Plant/Second Ward | |||||||||||
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Location | Harrisburg Blvd and York Street Houston, Texas | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 29°44′51.2″N95°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]
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