The phrase "a stretch of shops" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a continuous line or area of retail stores or businesses located close to each other.
Example: "We decided to take a stroll down the stretch of shops to see if we could find any unique gifts."
Alternatives: "a row of shops" or "a line of stores".
O'Connell Street first called Drogheda and then Sackville Street is a stretch of shops, cinemas, and snack bars.
Clusters of spectators sometimes obstruct pedestrian traffic on Northstar Crossing, a stretch of shops and restaurants just south of the food court.
Not far to the east locals and tourists alike throng Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile, a stretch of shops as swanky as any to be found on Fifth Avenue in New York or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
A few blocks away, Samuel Romero, owner of St. Teresa's Catholic Gift Shop on Fourth Street, in a stretch of shops and food stalls catering to the city's large Hispanic population, said he was leaning the opposite way.
Visitors can hike the Donner Summit area (named after the doomed 19th-century party of pioneers) and on the same day stroll Donner Pass Road, which runs the length of downtown Truckee, a stretch of shops and restaurants housed in buildings from the late 1800s.
Atlantic Avenue, which runs deep into the borough, will lead you most of the way, through a stretch of antiques shops and restaurants.
McGinley's proposition appealed to Jules Demchick, who was trying to build along a stretch of sandwich shops and commercial buildings on 48th Street.
The actual museum, in an Ottoman-style house along a stretch of antique shops in hilly Cukurcuma, will hold Istanbul ephemera that Pamuk gathered for inspiration while writing his Proustian (or Tanpinesque) epic of lost love.
One harried autumn afternoon in Rochester, I blundered past the entrance to the Erie Canal towpath and found myself at dusk in a stretch of smoke shops and pornographic bookstores.
Cradled in a huge forest of babaçu palms, the town of Codó is a single stretch of shops, bars, and gas stations along the highway, surrounded by a warren of dirt roads through the trees.
Then, you have somewhere like Bristol's East Street, a pedestrianised stretch of shops and benches and the types of people your uncle dubs "eccentric".
