[8] In 1980, he moved to New York City where he worked for three years in the real estate department of the law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP.
[8] In 1983, he moved back to San Francisco and joined his father's real estate development company, Shorenstein Properties.
[15] Shorenstein served on the board the Environmental Defense Fund; the executive council of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; the executive committee of The Real Estate Roundtable; and Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (named in honor of his late sister).
[16] Shorenstein was married to Lydia Preisler;[17] they had 3 children: a son, Brandon, and two daughters, Sandra and Danielle.
[18] He was a practitioner of yoga and was a collector of Southeast Asian and Nepalese art with an emphasis on Khmer and Cambodian pieces.