Mini Eiffel Tower (Bordeaux Center)

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

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A replica of the Eiffel Tower, about 100 feet tall according to the Fayetteville Observer in 2024, stands at Bordeaux Shopping Center on Owen Drive in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was installed in 1971, seven years after the shopping centre was established.

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A French pun on a place name explains why an Eiffel Tower was reported in 2024 to rise above a shopping centre on the edge of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Bordeaux Shopping Center sits at the corner of Owen Drive and Village Drive, beside Cape Fear Valley Hospital. The centre's own history says it began in 1964 with a grocery store and a five-and-dime, and that the tower spaces and the tower replica came with expansions in the 1970s and 1980s.

According to the Fayetteville Observer in 2024, the tower was installed in 1971. The paper, citing its own 1998 report, says the developer wanted something iconic to set the area apart, and that a local resident remarked, "Well if you're going to call this area Bordeaux, why not make it something French?" Businesses that moved in afterwards, such as Walden's Shoe World, advertised their location as "under the 'Eiffel' Tower."

The Fayetteville Observer gives its height as about 100 feet, roughly a tenth of the height of the Paris original, and the shopping centre describes it as a one-tenth replica.

Lighting supplier cBright, which lists its project here as completed in December 2022, says the tower is lit in white light in normal operation, with colour displays for holidays and special events, and that it was fully lit for an Independence Day for the first time since the 1980s. The Observer notes that Fayetteville, named for the Marquis de La Fayette, has other French ties, including a sister-city partnership with Saint-Avold, France, since 1993.

The tower belongs to a working commercial centre, with offices, a grocery store and restaurants around it. The centre describes its parking as free, so a visit is easiest as a short stop at the centre.

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A one-tenth Eiffel Tower replica on the grounds of a working shopping and medical centre. The centre describes its parking as free. A lighting supplier says the tower is lit white, with colour for holidays and events.

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Bordeaux Shopping Center, Owen Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina, at the corner of Owen Drive and Village Drive. It is on commercial property, so view it from the car park.

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