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After studies carried out by MGAP technicians, it was concluded that the reactivation was not possible due to the obsoleteness of the equipment and the high costs that the reconstruction of the company would bring as a result of the great changes in the demands of the international market. of meat products.
At the end of the first period of the government of President Julio María Sanguinetti, the factory and the neighborhood were ceded to the Intendancy of Río Negro, which began a long process of adaptation of the former company and its environment.
On the initiative of Mayor Mario Carminatti, the Municipal Industrial Park was created, which served as a business incubator; some services in the Anglo neighborhood were improved, and the foundations were laid for what was first a historical-tourist tour of the factory and which would then culminate with the creation of the Museum of the Industrial Revolution. The museum has almost 10,000 visitors per year and two guided tours per day, which present an interesting proposal that reviews the local history.