I like the idea of a location with a track. Dedicate areas for certain activities and you can curb 80% of the issues. I didn't get to go to SoWo this year, but was looking forward to making it a trip to meet up with friends, now that I moved away from them.
NO is not too far from Nashville, and it's a place my wife and I have wanted to visit. So that sounds like it could be fun. I'm about VW events, though, that are fun, laid back, relaxing, and full of people who want to have a fun, good time, not highschoolers and immature middle-agers who want to get blasted and terrorize streets. If the NO event is like the former, I might look to making a trip there sometime if I can gather up a few friends.
All that said, is it just me or do the tire marks in the middle look inappropriate?