Fresh Brew Coffee & Tea plans massive Humble warehouse

Fresh Brew Coffee & Tea is putting a major new footprint in Humble, with plans for a 262,120-square-foot warehouse at 21502 Rayford Road in the Imperial Oaks Shopping Center area. The project, filed June 8 with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, is scheduled to begin construction in August 2026 and wrap up by May 2027.

The building is planned for storage, packaging, brewing and distribution of coffee and tea, a sign that Fresh Brew is moving deeper into industrial-scale production and logistics. For the Rayford Road corridor, that means the first effects are likely to be construction traffic and staging activity, followed later by freight runs, delivery trucks and employee commutes once the site is up and running.

The location puts the project at the northeast corner of Rayford Road and Imperial Oaks Boulevard, next to an area that already mixes retail, restaurants and residential growth. The Imperial Oaks Shopping Center is anchored by Kroger, and the surrounding corridor continues to draw commercial development as subdivisions expand nearby. In practical terms, that is why a beverage company looking to serve Greater Houston would see this part of north Harris County as attractive: it sits in a growing market with road access that can support distribution.

Fresh Brew’s move also fits a larger corporate shift. The company says it has more than 90 years of experience, and its history traces back to a business that sold coffee and single-serve coffee machines to office buildings. A 2022 press release said the company’s origins date to 1919 through Morning Treat Coffee, which relocated from Louisiana to Houston in 1994.

That same year, Fresh Brew sold its vending division to Compass Group North America so it could focus on coffee, tea and extract product lines. In October 2025, the company announced it had acquired White Coffee Corporation’s licensed branded coffee division. Industry reporting said the deal gave Fresh Brew the nation’s largest portfolio of licensed bagged coffee and K-Cup products and could lift production to about 150,000 pounds of coffee per day.

For north Harris County, the Humble warehouse is another sign that the corridor is becoming more than a retail strip. It is increasingly a place where beverage, distribution and manufacturing operations can grow, bringing a larger industrial tax footprint and a more visible flow of trucks, workers and commercial activity to Rayford Road first.