Netroots Nation 2016 to be held in St. Louis, Missouri from July 14th-17th

The eleventh gath­er­ing of Net­roots Nation, tak­ing place ten years after the very first Year­lyKos, will be held July 14th-17th in St. Louis, Mis­souri, the con­ven­tion’s exec­u­tive direc­tor Raven Brooks announced a few min­utes ago.

NN 2016 will hap­pen just a few days ahead of the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion in Cleve­land, Ohio, which runs from July 18th-21st.

St. Louis, which sits on the banks of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Riv­er, is one of the larg­er cities in the Mid­west. The city itself has 318,000+ inhab­i­tants, and the met­ro­pol­i­tan area sur­round­ing it num­bers 2.9 mil­lion. The city’s found­ing dates back to the 1760s; it was named by a French fur trad­er in hon­or of Louis IX of France.

St. Louis will be the tenth city that the con­ven­tion has vis­it­ed. Cities that have pre­vi­ous­ly host­ed Net­roots Nation are Las Vegas (twice), Chica­go, Austin, Pitts­burgh, Min­neapo­lis, Prov­i­dence, San Jose, Detroit, and most recent­ly, Phoenix.

Host hotels have not been announced, but there are sev­er­al like­ly can­di­dates. The Crowne Plaza St. Louis Down­town, Embassy Suites St. Louis, Hote­Lu­miere by Trop­i­cana, Renais­sance Grand Hotel, Renais­sance St. Louis Suites, and Sher­a­ton Clay­ton Plaza are all locat­ed with­in a rea­son­able dis­tance of the Cer­vantes Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, and all are union­ized hotels.

We’re pleased that Net­roots Nation is once again head­ed to a city it has­n’t been to before. Keep­ing the con­ven­tion mov­ing around the coun­try pre­vents it from becom­ing dull and pre­dictable. And it also ensures that dif­fer­ent states and regions of the coun­try get the chance to host the event.

We plan on being in St. Louis for NN 2016. If you’re inter­est­ed in going, there’s no time like the present to plan. Again, the dates are July 14th-17th.