Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, (ret.)

Former Senator Dennis Hollingsworth is a businessman, investor and development consultant. He has been working in the field of commercial, industrial and residential development since 2011 and has been a consultant or partner on several successful projects in the Southern California region. His consulting strategies specialize in government relations, public relations, contract negotiations, procurement, development, regulatory, and entitlement issues in Southern California. 

His real estate investment strategies combine his expertise with the long term proven track records of his select venture partners who have decades of experience in all aspects of residential and commercial development, including master planned communities, commercial and industrial business park development, acquisition, entitlement, finance, and management and execution of business plan strategies with partnerships and joint ventures, meeting or exceeding initial targeted returns. Their strategies generally combine an opportunistic investment strategy with a team that has a long and varied background in real estate development and investment. Consequently, successful business plans in real estate have involved raw land, residential, distressed income properties and self storage turnarounds.

In his consulting role, Hollingsworth utilizes his extensive long term relationships and decades-long experience to deliver for his clients on their goals and objectives. He has successfully guided clients through the contract procurement process, development agreements, conditional use permits, water quality clearances, habitat issues and other regulatory hurdles. 

Hollingsworth served in the legislature from 2000 to 2010. He represented parts of Riverside and San Diego Counties in both the Assembly and the Senate. While in the legislature, he served in the policy areas of Local Government, Banking and Insurance, Natural Resources and Wildlife and Agriculture. He spent four years as Vice Chairman of the powerful Senate Budget committee and as a budget conferee during some of California’s most difficult budget years. He passed significant legislation into law involving Public Safety and child predators, emergency services and disaster response and preparedness and also passed the most significant changes to California’s Density Bonus development law in two decades. 

Having grown up on his family’s dairy farm in the area, Hollingsworth has deep roots in the region and relationships which span decades and sometimes generations. He attended Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo and Cornell University and is an alumnus of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. Hollingsworth currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Linfield Christian School and the Linfield Foundation in Temecula and a member of the board of the Healthy Valley Foundation which seeks to improve the health and fitness of the people of the San Jacinto Valley. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Central Coast Alpha Gamma Rho Alumni Association.