N3rd Street: a cluster of tech businesses claim a corridor from Old City to Northern Liberties

A stretch of North Third Street in Philadelphia is on its way to acquiring a new moniker: N3rd Street.
In recent years, the corridor from roughly Market Street in Old City through Northern Liberties has been gradually filling with nerd-centric office buildings and shared workspaces. If Philadelphia is to strengthen its case for being a hub of innovation, the city could use its fair share of blocks known for technological residents.
While certain neighborhoods here have already grown a reputation for intellectual capital — think, University City — narrow stretches that identify how Philadelphia is silly with digital smarts are successes themselves.

This appeared on the Technically Philly website on June 20, 2012.

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