Is Deep Ellum Dallas’ most important neighborhood?

From the time of its settlement after the Civil War, Deep Ellum has been a place of commerce and art, rich with the history of Black Dallas and the Texas blues. It was a place where lines of segregation were blurred and where immigrants, often Jewish people from Eastern Europe, set up stores and other businesses. With a night life came violence. Deep Ellum today is changing, largely because it is becoming what it never really was -- a residential place.  But its past remains ever with it. The question is, what will Deep Ellum become?