Joe Sorge

Joe Sorge, who founded a company that produced gene analysis and cell biology products, and who boasts an executive producer’s credit for “Workin’ Moms,” a comedy show on Netflix, is building Evora, a 42-acre project on Buffalo Drive between Post Road and Patrick Lane. Sorge, who also developed luxury apartment complex Evo and sold it shortly before the pandemic hit for more than $100 million, expects to finish Evora in five years. Sorge noted that he was paying for Evora’s first commercial building, a three-story, steel-frame structure, without an outside construction loan. Sorge, who grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 with bachelor’s degrees in biology and chemistry and from Harvard Medical School in 1979, according to a securities filing, which also says he was a resident surgeon at Brown University from 1979 to 1980. His business ventures have included biotech firm Stratagene Corp., which he sold for around $250 million in 2007. That same year, property records show, he bought an 8,702-square-foot house in Summerlin for more than $7.7 million. He also ventured into the film industry. Sorge directed a 2014 documentary about the divorce industry called “Divorce Corp.”