The Aire at Westchester: 2,200 Homes Beside Westchester Commons

Directly west of Westchester Commons, on 334 acres that sat zoned and empty for the better part of two decades, a neighborhood is going up. HHHunt Communities calls it The Aire at Westchester. At roughly 2,200 homes over ten to fifteen years, it is the largest addition of rooftops in western Midlothian in a generation, and for the business community along the corridor it is a decade-long pipeline of new customers arriving a few hundred at a time.

This post covers how the land came to be zoned the way it is, what was approved in 2021, what is selling today, and what has not yet been decided.

GrayCo bought the land in 2006 and had it rezoned the same year for a conventional mix: 1,600 homes and 350,000 square feet of stores and offices. Then the recession arrived, and the site stayed in trees while Westchester Commons opened next door. In October 2017 GrayCo brought in Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to plan and market the property, and HHHunt became involved around 2020.

The 2021 amendment reversed the 2006 proportions. Jeff Geiger of Hirschler, the applicant's attorney, told the Planning Commission:

The new plan traded 150,000 square feet of commercial entitlement for 615 more homes, a shift the whole corridor has been making. It also set out to complement Westchester Commons rather than compete with it. Geiger again: "Their goal was to not create a community that would compete with existing commercial and office goals already present."

The county's assessment of the land tells the story in one number: $11.46 million in 2021, $23 million in 2024.

The approved master plan divides the site into three land bays separated by a central park along an existing creek. Access is from Midlothian Turnpike, by two- and four-lane divided entrances, and from Watkins Centre Parkway through Westchester Commons. There is no access from Huguenot Springs Road.

The site includes what the applicant described as the highest point in Chesterfield County. "We looked for a way to make that a seminal feature of this community," Geiger said.

One geographic note for readers who follow the county's village planning: the property lies west of Route 288, which is the western boundary of the Midlothian Community Special Area Plan. The village plan and the Village Overlay do not apply here; the site is guided by the countywide Comprehensive Plan and the conditions of its own zoning case.

As of September 2026, the sales center is at 16021 Aspect Way. Prices are the builders' published figures and will move.

The first phase is 196 condominiums and 204 townhouses. The 330 single-family houses come in a later phase. Builders list Old Hundred Elementary, Midlothian Middle and Midlothian High as the assigned schools; confirm with Chesterfield County Public Schools before relying on that.

The first commercial phase, filed in 2025, is modest: a 24,000-square-foot office building, a 10,000-square-foot commercial building and a 13,000-plus-square-foot office building along Midlothian Turnpike west of James View Drive.

The two anchors that would change the corridor, a 70,000-square-foot grocery and an 80-room hotel, are permitted but not committed. No grocer and no hotel flag has been named. Ridout has described the commercial program as market-driven, and the zoning allows 50,000 to 60,000 square feet of office in place of the hotel if that is what the market wants. Both are worth watching: a full-line grocer would give the west end of the corridor a new anchor, and a hotel would add rooms beside Route 288 at a time when the county is actively courting sports tourism.

Rooftops are the input every service business runs on, and 2,200 of them next to the corridor's largest shopping center is the biggest single demand story in western Midlothian for years to come. Three practical points:

Builder pricing and availability change quickly and are best confirmed with the builders directly. Zoning case details are from Chesterfield County's planning records.

Last updated September 16, 2026.