Solar panels atop the new Combs’ Coffee Roastery in Gainesville, Texas. All images courtesy of Combs’ Coffee.
An unlikely specialty coffee complex has emerged in the small city of Gainesville, Texas. Combs’ Coffee has converted an 8,500-square-foot Coca-Cola bottling plant into a fully solar powered coffee and cacao roastery, quality control and training facility, and green coffee repository.
Combs and partners are also now the owners of the entire 5-acre lot on which the building stands, including some 60,000 square feet of building space. Straight north of Dallas off I-35 near the Oklahoma border, the site also includes an original 19th-century power plant, ice house, creamery, flour mill and scale house.