Residence halls at Cleveland area colleges will provide housing for next year’s Republican National Convention.
So far, event organizers have reserved 650 rooms at Cleveland State University and have contacted John Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace University and Case Western Reserve University for use of their dorm rooms, reports Cleveland.com.
The convention begins June 18, 2016 and will last for four days. About 17,000 rooms must be secured for the event. Because the event will be held in July rather than in mid- or late-August, campus dorms will be vacant because students will be on summer vacation.
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The convention committee is also in talks with various colleges about reserving meeting rooms and other venues on campus.
This isn’t the first time college campuses have been used to house political convention attendees and security forces. In 2008, University of Denver dorms housed 840 Democratic National Convention staff members.
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