CSU researchers will focus on the Cleveland economy.

Cleveland reports.

Cleveland State University will study Republican National Convention’s impact on Cleveland economy

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Officials helping plan the upcoming Republican National Convention have said they expect the event will bring more than $200 million into the Greater Cleveland economy.

Beginning in June, Cleveland State University will begin a project to pin down that number more exactly.

The Cleveland 2016 Host Committee, the local nonpartisan group helping organize the GOP convention, has hired CSU’s Center for Economic Development in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs to study the event’s economic impact.

Factors CSU researchers will consider include money spent by the event’s estimated 50,000 visitors — including protesters — and outside workers that will come here to work on the convention, according to Iryna Lendel, the center’s interim director.