Editor

Adam Platt

Adam Platt is editor of Twin Cities Business magazine. He has been with the magazine since 2011.

Phone: 612-336-9275

Adam Platt is editor of Twin Cities Business. He still writes and reports while also setting the overall editorial course of TCB coverage. He attended Macalester College in St. Paul, became a staff writer and media critic for the Twin Cities Reader, moved on to become the founding editor of Casino Executive, a Minnesota-based trade magazine, and then joined Mpls.St.Paul magazine in 1998, where he served as executive editor until joining TCB in 2011.

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Restaurants v. Unions and the City

Restaurants v. Unions and the City

Restaurants first came under the microscope about a decade ago, during the #MeToo period. They were identified, fairly or not, as an industry where hot-headed chefs degraded and exploited workers.
Yacht Club Lifts All Boats

Yacht Club Lifts All Boats

Last weekend’s nascent Minnesota Yacht Club Festival brought roughly 35,000 people to downtown St. Paul’s Harriet Island both Friday and Saturday. The event was well-reviewed from a music and sound
A Piece of Their Action

A Piece of Their Action

I have a lifelong friend, Trevor, who owns a franchise. He ended up there indirectly, spending his early career managing divisions for retailers. But disruptions in those niches kept putting him
Sun Country Pivots to Cargo

Sun Country Pivots to Cargo

Sun Country Airlines on Friday announced a substantial reduction in scheduled passenger operations for 2025. The airline has seen the environment for passenger flights worsen since winter’s end—the result of
Inside the Grocery Store Boom

Inside the Grocery Store Boom

The grocery industry is one of the oldest trades in existence. Grocery stores may look similar to the ones you frequented as a kid, but in the last 20 years
Wolves Back … in the Black?

Wolves Back … in the Black?

As the Minnesota Timberwolves get set to begin the NBA’s Western Conference championship series tonight at Target Center, the playoff run — the team’s most prolonged since 2004 — has
The Walker’s Dilemma

The Walker’s Dilemma

Discussing the Walker Art Center is an endeavor steeped in paradox. Many consider it a museum, but it’s more than a repository of visual art. It’s a multidisciplinary center of
Return to Sender

Return to Sender

An ignored letter to a Minneapolis city councilmember (CM) opened a window into a worsening relationship between the area’s housing development community and elected officials, and spot-lit ominous prospects for
The Twins’ April Downgrade

The Twins’ April Downgrade

Teams have been known to close their stadiums’ upper decks to reduce costs when they simply can’t attract fans. The fan-challenged Oakland A’s and Tampa Bay Rays are obvious examples.
The Wolves Mess: Layaway’s Last Laugh

The Wolves Mess: Layaway’s Last Laugh

The collapse of the Timberwolves’ sale to the Lore/Rodriguez consortium this week is inevitably triggering to Wolves’ fans, waiting for the other shoe to drop after a catastrophic injury to
Timberwolves Sale Collapses

Timberwolves Sale Collapses

The Minnesota Timberwolves released a statement Thursday morning announcing their sale to entrepreneur Marc Lore and baseball legend Alex Rodriguez had collapsed and the team “was no longer for sale.”