Mercado Modelo (Montevideo)

Mercado Modelo was the central municipal fruit and vegetable wholesale market in of Montevideo, Uruguay. The area around the installations, which occupy several blocks of the Mercado Modelo–Bolívar barrio, has also taken on the name of the market, hence the composite name of the entire barrio. The central building has an area of, to which more buildings were added in 1996 of an area of, while the overall area of the market is.
In March 2009, the then mayor of Montevideo, Ricardo Ehrlich, announced that the market would be moved to the west of Montevideo. In 2024 the former market was reinaugurated as an entertainment center with cowork, sports and food areas, under the denomination Espacio Modelo.