Sorry - guess I'm a lot older than you. And I spent a lot of time in Coolidge Corner as a kid. Used to live nearby, actually. Compared to the way it was in those days fifty years ago, it now resembles a blighted, ageing, East European socialist sinkhole to these old eyes. I'm afraid it looks pretty d*mn cheesy to me. As in Limburger cheesy.
That may well be the case. When I think of Brookline, I think of the private homes and apartments I've seen, not Coolidge Corner. CC is doing pretty well but it's definitely a different kind of business center than it was when Brookline was a real community and not gentrified/hippified/studentized through the roof.