The Great Recession hits and dramatically impacts the real estate and construction industries. Snyder Langston’s Residential and Optym service lines are key to the sustainability of the company and the firm strategically turns its sights to an end-user focus in order to diversify and secure work in the future that is less influenced by economic cycles. As part of this concentration on end-user work, Snyder Langston completes The William H. Hannon Library for Loyola Marymount University in 2009. Snyder Langston is awarded Green Firm Certification by the Sustainable Performance Institute.