When the Walt Disney Company announced in 2018 that it would leave its longtime home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a former manufacturing district downtown named Hudson Square, some people may have scratched their heads.

That a blue-chip corporation would move to an area between trendy New York neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and TriBeCa, without the cachet of either of them, could have seemed like baffling choice.

But in the two years since then, the neighborhood has risen in stature, especially after Google announced that it was opening large offices in three buildings there. Indeed, Hudson Square, which is also home to internet-focused businesses like the eyewear maker Warby Parker, the insurer Oscar Health and the razor vendor Harry’s, is emerging as New York’s latest tech hub.

“It’s all kind of coming together,” said Brett Greenberg, an executive managing director of Jack Resnick & Sons, whose 10-story office building in a former JuJuBe candy factory is one of the places where Google will open offices this month. One of just three office tenants, the company is taking 85 percent of the 483,000-square-foot building.