120 Dundalk Drive: A 1978 Dorset Park Tower Off Kennedy Road, Reviewed

120 Dundalk Drive is a plain-spoken 1978 tower in Dorset Park that does one thing well: it gives you a family-sized suite with almost every utility paid, a short drive from the Kennedy Road shopping strip and Highway 401. It is not glamorous and it is not new. What you are really buying is the reserve fund, so that is where I would start. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A 1978 family tower in Dorset Park

Dorset Park is one of Scarborough’s postwar neighbourhoods, mostly built up in the 1950s, with Kennedy Road running through its middle. The stretch of Kennedy from Highway 401 down to Lawrence Avenue is a long commercial strip of stores, offices and high-rises, and 120 Dundalk Drive sits just off it.

The building went up in 1978, built by Index Investments according to condos.ca. At 15 storeys and 173 suites, it is mid-sized for a tower of its era: big enough to support an indoor pool and staff, small enough that the lobby doesn’t feel like a transit hub.

Its neighbour at 100 Dundalk Drive, Kennedy Place, is a separate condominium. Buyers sometimes confuse the two on listing sites, so check the address and corporation number on anything you are sent.

Suites and the three-bedroom question

Condos.ca records suite sizes of roughly 925 to 1,140 square feet, and the building includes three-bedroom plans. In a 1978 building, a three-bedroom of that size usually means compact bedrooms, a separate kitchen and a defined dining area, rather than the open plan of a new build.

That is still a lot of bedrooms for the money in Toronto. For a family that needs three rooms and can’t stretch to a house or a new townhouse, buildings like this are one of the few realistic options left in the city.

I would treat the published size range with some caution. Listings sometimes understate or overstate square footage in older buildings, and the fees on current listings suggest some suites may be larger than the top of that range. Ask for the floor plan and, if size matters to your decision, measure.

Families should also think about how the building works day to day. Ask where strollers and bikes go, how storage lockers are allocated, how busy the elevators are at school and work rush hours, and whether the party or games room can be booked for children’s birthdays. In a 173-suite building, those small things shape daily life more than finishes do.

An inclusive fee, and how to read it

Current listings show fees of about $1,170 to $1,177 a month. According to condos.ca, that covers common elements, heat, air conditioning, hydro, water, parking and building insurance. Cable is not on the list.

With hydro, heat and cooling included, the headline fee will always look high next to a new building. Add a typical household’s electricity, gas or cooling bill and a parking charge to the newer building’s fee and the gap shrinks. Do that sum with real numbers before you decide.

The other side of an inclusive fee is that the corporation absorbs energy price changes. Ask the manager how the utility line in the budget has moved over recent years, and whether the board has considered sub-metering or energy upgrades.

Ask, too, what the corporation has already renewed. In a building of this age, the answer to which windows, elevators and mechanical systems have been replaced, and when, tells you more about the next ten years of fees than the current fee does.

Kennedy Road, the busway and what is changing

For daily errands, the Kennedy Road strip is the point. Kennedy Commons, a large shopping plaza on Kennedy between Highway 401 and Ellesmere Road, is in the same stretch, and Scarborough Town Centre is a short drive east. Highway 401 access is close by.

Transit in this part of Scarborough has been in flux. The Line 3 Scarborough RT was replaced by buses in 2023, and according to blogTO, a dedicated busway on the old rail corridor from Kennedy Station via Lawrence East and Ellesmere stations to Scarborough Town Centre was set to open on 30 September 2026. The Line 2 subway extension to Sheppard and McCowan is expected around 2030. Exact distances and routes are in the data panel on this page.

Development is coming to Kennedy Road too. KingSett Capital has proposed three condominium towers of 34 to 36 storeys and about 950 units at 2075 Kennedy Road, near Highway 401, keeping an existing office tower on the site. As of the most recent report I found, it was still seeking approval.

Pricing context

Condos.ca puts the building average at about $405 per square foot. That is well below new construction in Scarborough and broadly in line with other 1970s towers in the area with inclusive fees.

Current asking prices across two active listings run from about $529,000 to $649,000. That spread is wide for a building with such a narrow size range, which tells me condition and renovation are doing much of the pricing work here.

For family-sized space with hydro and heat paid, that is hard to match elsewhere in Toronto. Run the full monthly cost, mortgage plus fee plus taxes, and compare it with what you would pay to rent similar space nearby. For recent aggregate sales, request my building sold report.

Building specifications

Amenities at 120 Dundalk Drive Condos

An indoor pool, sauna, gym and games room cover the basics for families and older residents alike, with the pool doing a lot of work in winter. Pools are expensive to keep running in a building this age, so check what the reserve fund study plans for it.

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