BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Momentum Telecom Inc. is looking to relocate its corporate headquarters from Shelby County into one of the professional office buildings at Trinity Medical Center at 800 Montclair Road in Birmingham.

Tracey Morant-Adams, director of the Birmingham Mayor's Office of Economic Development, said the move would not only bring a new headquarters into the city limits, but it would start filling up space at the Trinity Medical Center site in advance of the hospital's move to U.S. 280 in 2015.

“It’s a great company headquarters, and that is one of the mayor’s stated objectives – bringing more corporate headquarters into the city,” she said. “It also would get them into the Trinity Medical Center site which, I believe, can be catalytic when it comes to the redevelopment and re-use of that campus.”

Morant-Adams said a study on the potential re-use of the Trininty campus listed innovation and technology companies as one option. Momentum, she said, would fit in that category.

According to the Oct. 7 agenda of the Birmingham City Council's Economic Development Committee, the Birmingham Mayor's Office of Economic Development will to present a project agreement between the city and Momentum for incentives to facilitate the move.

Momentum intends to invest $750,000 and create at least 60 jobs with the headquarters, according to the agenda. The company is seeking $300,000 in incentives, payable in four payments of $75,000 each.

Mark Brown, vice president of business retention and expansion with the Birmingham Business Alliance, said keeping Momentum in the metro area and positioning them for growth are the goals.

“This is keeping a cutting-edge technology and telecom company in the metro area,” Brown said. “It strengthens Birmingham’s position in that industry and grows our technological ecosystem.”

Brown agreed with Morant-Adams that Momentum could show other firms the possibilities that exist at the Trinity campus and could be a catalyst for other movement there.

Momentum Telecom is located in Meadow Brook Corporate Park off U.S. 280.

Other items on the Economic Development Committee agenda include:

An amended redevelopment agreement with

An agreement with Fern Street Enterprise to operate a

An agreement between the city and

The committee meeting is scheduled for noon on Oct. 7.