Community development in Matou has been focused on the "Nanying Cultural Zone," mainly comprising the Tsungyeh Sugar Factory, which the county has designated an historic site. The Tainan County Cultural Bureau is interested in turning it into a "cultural village" to hold both exhibits of cultural and historical documents and exhibits of local arts and crafts and sugar industry artifacts.
整個麻豆社區營造的發展重心，是以縣定古蹟「總爺糖廠」為主的「南瀛藝文特區」開發計畫，而台南縣政府文化局也有意藉由糖廠古蹟廳舍的再利用，結合藝陣博物館規劃出歷史文物、本土藝術和糖業產物等綜合一體的藝術文化村。