What was all the hubbub at the Four Seasons, where a mystery VIP recently had LAPD out in force, with officers and members of the canine unit standing sentry, notifying visitors that all vehicles and their trunks would be checked? Hotel staff were true pros in keeping their lips pursed for security’s sake, and it took more than a week to get a reliable source to come up with the name of the guest who caused the stir – President Reuven Rivlin of Israel, in town to deliver the keynote address at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations in North America at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live … The security routine remained in place at the luxe hotel on Doheny past the Nov. 12-14 run of the Jewish Federations gathering, and here’s a guess Rivlin stuck around town to catch part of the 31st Israeli Film Festival, which stretched from Nov. 5-21 and showcased offerings from his country’s movie industry, with an opener at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center at the Saban Theatre on Wilshire and the rest spread over Laemmle theaters in Beverly Hills, West L.A. and Encino … Worth noting: said source waited until President Rivlin was well out of town before mentioning he was the VIP at the Four Seasons … Cute scene from Terroni at 8th & Spring, where a waitress served up a classic example of how downtown can sometimes feel like a small town, especially when it comes to the rumor mill. The waitress noticed a diner sitting at the 8th street window of the place, craning his neck to take in the spiffy apartment buildings rising on each side of the 700 block of S. Spring. “Have you heard they’re going to be twice as tall as they already are by the time they’re finished?” asked the waitress. She was at the right table, because the fella looking up was having lunch with Carl and Matthew McLarand, the father-son team from MVE+Partners, which designed both 732 S. Spring and 755 S. Spring. They were celebrating the topping off of the 732 building, and they assured the waitress neither of the structures will go any higher than the 24 stories they have already achieved … That was cute, this one is earnest: Check the Op-Ed on page 59 for an example of a laudable small-town feel to downtown’s growing residential community … Lew Horne is a downtown guy as boss of CBRE’s Greater Los Angeles Region, and he knows that just about every community is getting smaller is some ways, especially when it comes to the tectonic shift in retail and distribution, where the “Last Mile” is the great challenge. Horne is generous with his insights, as you’ll note in Neil Nispero’s front-page piece on Inglewood’s new outlook, and here’s another from him to mull over: a trend toward industrial properties following the L.A. residential trend of going vertical. There’s only so much room in any given last mile, after all …Sullivan Says: Check out the gleaming tiles of the Broadway Trade Center at 8th and Broadway for a reminder of what some elbow grease can do to perk up an old beauty.