The rumblings about Frisco, which kicks in relocation money, are getting considerably louder as the high-roller holds onto its title as the state's fastest-growing municipality, packages get heftier and the economy stays in low gear.

So far, the meetings have attracted officials from Addison, Farmers Branch and Richardson. Addison city manager Ron Whitehead tells GlobeSt.com that "there definitely is some interest in creating a level playing field. We're in the beginning of those conversations." It has been confirmed that building owners and developers with vested interests in the communities also are meeting, but so far no one's stepping forward to openly discuss the game plan.

Whitehead stresses the municipalities are equally committed to probing ways to better tap its trade area of 272,000 residents, who are taking their spending dollars north to Frisco's Stonebriar Centre and Plano's Shops at Willow Bend. There is money to mine in their backyards of Interstate 35, Stemmons Freeway, north LBJ Freeway and Texas 190. "If we could just have the business in that corridor, we'd be pretty happy," he says.