The phrase "a section of the area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific part or segment of a larger geographical or conceptual space.
Example: "The park has a section of the area dedicated to children's play equipment."
Alternatives: "a part of the region" or "a portion of the space".
The project's sponsor, the Elad Foundation, said the new visitors' center and parking garage would be built above a section of the excavation area known as the City of David, leaving the ruins below accessible.
A section of the Riverdale area on the far south side, which included the Altgeld Gardens development, registered the biggest loss of blacks, from nearly 9,500 a decade ago to scarcely more than 5,000 in the latest statistics.
But according to Catherine J. Mathis, spokeswoman for The Times, the globes are part of a marketing collaboration that will feature Times reports about historical events within exhibits; in addition, a section of the retail area is being branded as The New York Times Store and will sell Times merchandise.
In addition to repealing the Public Amenities Act, the bill also negates a section of the Group Areas Act of 1966 requiring segregation in restaurants and clubs.
Scores of marchers walked through a section of the South Robertson area of Los Angeles with banners calling for an end to gangs and guns and urging other locals to join the fight against crime.
During such moments of mental juggling, a section of the brain called Brodmann's Area 10 comes alive.
In Neenah, Wis., where the Kleenex brand team is based (Kimberly-Clark's world headquarters are in Dallas), designers occupy a section of the offices called the "trend area," where new designs are developed.
Later, a Givaudan scientist tried to capture the headspace of a fruit that was still on the tree: he scraped a section of the peel, covered the exposed area with the bell jar, and activated a small pump that sent a stream of air over the fruit's surface, forcing molecules into the jar, where they collected in a filter.
On Friday, the city - or at least a section of the city, West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, an area that had been torched - was starting to heal.
