Joel serves as Senior Vice President, Real Estate Development and Planning at Empire State Development, where he leads community engagement, urban planning, and real estate transactions to transform underutilized state-owned sites into mixed-use, mixed-income housing communities. Previously, Joel was Vice President at Douglaston Development, where he oversaw the development of more than 1,600 affordable housing units in NYC. He has held roles in the Manhattan Office of the NYC Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society of New York.