A majority Black neighborhood since 1950, Echo hasn’t received the funding afforded the other neighborhoods north of the river. Echo has more in common with the working-class neighborhoods of St. Patrick’s and Commerce City. While many of the city’s neighborhoods began with a specific cultural identity which shifted and blended over time, Echo began as a Black community, became heterogeneous at a time when most of the neighborhoods were built around specific immigrant communities, and returned to its roots through the Great Migration.
