Cassidy Turley has hired Al Woods as the commercial real estate firm’s managing director for project and development services in Boston’s newly formed project management group. 

Woods will lead the new team and work to grow the firm’s development services in the city. 

Before joining Cassidy, Woods spent 17 years as managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle, working to grow the firm’s construction services with national accounts including Merck, HSBC, Xerox, Wells Fargo and United Healthcare. 

"Al’s combination of more than 27 years of construction and commercial real estate experience makes him well-qualified to fill this new role on the Cassidy Turley team," Joe Fallon, managing principal, said in a statement. "His project management expertise in the Boston market will prove a valuable asset to our organization."

"I’m looking forward to applying my unique perspective on the commercial real estate and construction industries in my new role at Cassidy Turley," Woods said in the statement.