I bet you could get someone with deco talent on this and have something very cool and perhaps unique to player run shards (can't vouch for unique there but still very cool). I know just the place perhaps... maybe. We have some nice tents/trees/yard deco near the WPA guild house. I wonder if a zoo would fit in the area. I'm thinking it does not have to have monsters (though it could have whatever you like... maybe a scary halloween theme park) but whatever works best. Cages with animals. Vendors sells popcorn or whatever, all very nice I'd think. I know the training area already has a zoo-like appearance but still it isn't quite the same... would be a great start for ideas though.
Now I have already (just this past weekend) put a castle in the area and would not have done this if I had thought there was a chance of getting a zoo out there. I can still pack it up and move if necessary. There is room for a zoo as it is but I would not want to over-shadow it with a castle and would move it if it was "in the way" somehow.
Crosses fingers...
Q