Alexandria, VA – Watergate at Landmark, the first condominium community in Alexandria, celebrated its 50th anniversary this month with a joyful event honoring the past, present, and future of this iconic residential development.

Among the featured speakers was longtime community attorney David S. Mercer, who has represented Watergate since its inception in 1975. At the celebration, Mercer reflected on the property’s origins—sharing that he was fresh out of law school when he was hired to help close the first sales under Virginia’s newly minted condominium law.

“I had to ramp up quickly,” Mercer recalled. “There weren’t even classes on condo law.” He ended up handling the closings of every single one of the 1,462 units. Mercer himself invested in a unit back then and said, “I think I mad

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