Selling beer or wine in Corsicana is a location question first

Corsicana wasn't always a place you could buy a beer. Voters approved off-premises beer and wine sales and mixed drinks in restaurants on June 1, 2004, and that local-option vote only covered the city limits as they stood then. So before you count on selling alcohol at a given spot, the first question is whether that address even sits in the wet territory.

The state license through the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is only half of it. The city won't allow alcohol sales in residentially zoned areas, and it enforces a 300-foot buffer from any public or private school, church, or public hospital, measured property line to property line for schools, and door to door along the street frontage for churches and hospitals. A great lease across the street from a church can be a dead end.

So check the property before you sign anything, not after. Walk the address past both Corsicana's permit office and TABC (the city tells applicants to track the actual permit through the TABC website) and confirm the zoning and the 300-foot measurement for a store, restaurant, bar, or club. The location matters as much as the concept.