The phrase "block around" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: I walked around the block around my neighborhood for some exercise.
Without the NFL block around to keep the network afloat this spring, Bromstad has her work cut out for her.
By the time I was born, in 1986, he knew the character of every block around our building.
The guests that night included US ambassador Dan Mozena, whose security detail lined the block around Xulhaz's apartment.
"The block around the Criminal Courts Building looked like Tower Hill on execution day," he observes of Butch's arraignment.
Two of the fields are six feet above grade with decorative block around the main part of the field.
As classes ended on Tuesday, the block around the school was locked down by police officers and security guards.
Soon he became engrossed in just moving the block around on the table he built for it.
The church was in a residential neighborhood in southwest Topeka, and its members had bought most of the houses on the block around it.
The store was down the block, around the corner and across one high-traffic street that had a crosswalk but no stop sign or light.
Ever since 1947, when he started turning out strudels & challahs & coffee cakes, the block around his bakery has smelled of sweet dough & sugar glazes.
Punchdrunk set their 2010 immersive Duchess of Malfi in an abandoned office block, around which the play's audience was allowed to wander.
