The phrase "a block of stores" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of retail shops located close to each other, often within a single building or complex.
Example: "We decided to spend the afternoon shopping at the block of stores downtown, where we found everything we needed."
Alternatives: "a shopping plaza" or "a retail complex".
On the Avenida Reforma, near the Paseo Bravo, is a block of stores selling cowboy boots and Western shirts.
This hapless everyman, Koistinen (Janne Hyytiainen), a night watchman for a security company, patrols a block of stores that include a fancy jewelry shop ripe for burglary.
The break, which caused no injuries and relatively brief havoc for commuters, created more lasting problems for a few businesses nearby, pouring hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into the basements of a block of stores and an 18-story office building on 14th Street between Broadway and University Place.
If you plan on storing objects and don't need a block of storage, on Amazon S3, storing 1TB costs $30 per month.
It was on the second floor of a 150,000-square-foot five-story building on a block of shuttered stores.
At Happy Land, the property owner, Mr. DiLorenzo, leased an entire block of stores to a second company, Little Peach Realty, for 30 years, which in turn leased a storefront to Elias Colon, the Happy Land operator.
The fire also caused smoke damage to an entire block of stores and forced a two-block evacuation of the boardwalk.
Correction: April 4, 2004, Sunday A front-page article in this section on March 21 about a burned-out block of stores in Sunnyside, Queens, misstated the location of the most severe damage.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet More than a decade later, it's hard to imagine anyone protesting outside of the half-a-block brontosaurus of store on 82nd Street and Broadway, except perhaps to complain that the book they'd ordered using the convenient online request form hadn't yet arrived in stock.
By 1910, this section of West 46th was evolving into a block of distinctive shops and stores.
The letter explained that I would have only one Comcast.net e-mail address until mid-January (I have three @Home addresses) but eventually could have up to seven, and that I'd gain My File Locker (a block of Web space to store personal files like photos) and remote access to my e-mail.
