Galleria 02, 10 Graphophone Grove: The First Tower at Galleria on the Park

Galleria 02 is the building I point to when a buyer asks what the old Galleria Mall site at Dufferin and Dupont is actually turning into. It is the 24-storey tower of the first phase, it registered in July 2025, and it sits beside a brand-new community centre and park that most condo buyers in the west end can only dream about. The catch is that you are buying the first finished piece of a master plan, with years of construction still to come around it. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

The first phase of a 20-acre rebuild

The Galleria Shopping Centre stood at Dupont and Dufferin from 1972. Almadev is replacing it with Galleria on the Park, a 20-acre, multi-block community planned for eight towers, close to 3,000 homes, an eight-acre park and roughly 300,000 square feet of retail. Galleria 01 and 02, at the west end of the site, were the first towers out of the ground; sales started in 2019 and the first occupants moved in during 2024.

That sequencing is the whole story of this building. Owners here got the first finished homes on the site, but they also live beside an active construction zone. UrbanToronto’s coverage shows Galleria III, a 31-storey Hariri Pontarini Architects tower, rising to the east, and further blocks will follow. If you need quiet streets and a finished neighbourhood today, this is not that yet.

The upside is what the master plan delivers to the front door. The new Wallace Emerson Community Centre, designed by Perkins&Will at about 90,000 square feet, sits right beside the towers and is planned with pools, a gym, a running track, a dance studio and a childcare centre. The rebuilt Wallace Emerson Park is planned in three zones: one with a BMX and skate park and a skating trail, one with a multi-use field and hill, and one with treed walking paths.

Stacked boxes, a shared podium and an unusual shape

Core Architects designed both towers on a single podium. The lower floors use a staggered, stacked-box massing with a dark steel-toned base meant to nod to the area’s industrial past, and the recesses in that massing create sheltered outdoor spaces. Above the second floor the podium becomes a C shape, with a narrow 11-storey connector joining the north and south towers before they separate and continue up.

The south tower is stepped back to follow the curve of the new street that cuts through the site from Dupont toward Dufferin. In practice that means suites face in a lot of different directions. Almadev’s marketing pointed to park views south and Dupont Street to the north, with some corners getting two walls of glass, west sunsets and a downtown skyline view.

Because 02 shares a podium, amenities and likely mechanical systems with 01, the two buildings are tied together in ways a stand-alone tower is not. I would ask for the shared facilities agreement along with the status certificate, and read how costs are split between the two corporations. UrbanToronto’s database also classifies the Block 5 project as a mix of condominium and market-rate rental, so ask exactly how tenure is arranged across the two towers.

Suites: built for families more than most new towers

The unit mix runs from studios through one-, two- and three-bedroom plans, and every suite was sold with a private balcony or terrace. Kitchens have built-in appliances and open-concept layouts, primary bedrooms come with ensuites, and some plans include a flex room that works as a small office or guest space. Interior design was by U31.

What stands out to me is that the current resale supply includes genuine three-bedroom plans, which is still rare in new downtown-adjacent towers. Pair that with a third-floor children’s playroom and a community centre with childcare next door, and this building makes more sense for a young family than a typical one-bedroom investor tower.

Every suite also uses Almadev Link, the developer’s smart-home package, which lets residents use a phone for keyless entry to building doors, the garage and common areas. Ask the seller to confirm the system is transferred properly on closing and how access is managed if a phone is lost.

Living at Dufferin and Dupont day to day

Today the site still has working retail: during construction a grocery store and drug store continued to operate in the remaining part of the old mall, and a new grocery store is planned for the base of Galleria III. As the retail mews open, more of your daily errands should move on-site, but the timing is the developer’s, not yours.

Dupont is a busy arterial and Dufferin is one of the city’s busiest bus corridors, so suites facing those streets will hear traffic. Suites facing the park side trade that for construction noise for now and, eventually, the most open outlook in the community. The transit, school and Walk Score details are in the data panel on this page.

What Galleria 02 costs to own

At the time of writing there were four resale listings in the building, asking between $604,900 and $2,225,000. That is a very wide spread, which tells you the suite mix here is broad, so compare against listings of a similar size and exposure rather than the building as a whole. There were also three suites for lease.

Maintenance fees on those active listings ranged from about $466 to $1,278 a month, which works out to roughly $0.72 per square foot across the listings with known sizes. That is a reasonable number for a brand-new tower with an outdoor pool and a large amenity package, but it is a first-years number. New corporations often set early budgets lean, and the first reserve fund study can move fees.

I don’t have a verified average sold price per square foot for this building yet, and with a 2025 registration the resale history is short. The best way to judge a price here is against the other Galleria phases and the mid-rises along Dupont, not against older Junction Triangle stock. My building sold report gives you the recent aggregate numbers.

Building specifications

Amenities at Galleria 02

The 12th-floor outdoor pool, gym and yoga studio are the headline, and an outdoor pool is still unusual in a new west-end tower. Add the third-floor kids’ playroom and the public community centre next door, and you have more to do within a few minutes of your suite than in almost any building on Dupont.

Jatin’s honest take on Galleria 02

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