Mark Hopp; Publisher of Business Publications

Mark Hopp, 43, publisher of business publications around the country. Hopp formed his company, MCP Inc., in 1975 and began publishing the Entertainer, an independent arts and music publication distributed on campuses from Minneapolis. The paper was soon changed to the Twin Cities Reader, which circulates in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During the 1980s his firm, CityBusiness, purchased publications in Sacramento, San Jose, New Orleans, Philadelphia and other cities. On Wednesday in Minneapolis of cancer.