Cebu eyes world record in fireworks launched

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City to hit for 2 world record slots

IN ONE major event before the May 10 elections, Cebu City Hall will launch the 290-hectare South Road Properties (SRP) with a big bang, literally, and will try to break two world records in one night.

Four years after the City started selling SRP lots, Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced that they will officially launch the facility during one big party, where the City will also try to break two Guinness world records—the longest barbecue line and the most number of rockets launched in less than a minute.

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The event might also have a political color to it, since Osmeña wants to hold the Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan and Liberal Party local members’ party on the same night, which is their own version of a miting de avance.

Osmeña tentatively scheduled the activity on the first week of May.

He also wants the City to make its second attempt in having a barbecue party with the longest barbecue line, which the City failed to get in January 2004.

Osmeña thought of officially launching the SRP after Pyroworks International Inc. owner Brian Lim asked for the City’s support in his bid to break the world record of having the most number of rockets launched in less than one minute.

He wants to launch 100,000 rockets during a fireworks display at the SRP, in a bid to break the current world record held by the United Kingdom.

“This is long overdue… We are planning to launch the SRP. What really started it, was when Brian asked for my support. I said wow, that’s a great opportunity to launch the SRP, the highlight of which will be breaking the Guinness record,” he said.

There will be all kinds of fun events during the same night, said Osmeña, including a big barbecue party that everyone can attend.

In his news conference yesterday, he said the City may invite sponsors to shoulder some of the expenses.

The 100,000 rockets and the custom-made equipment from where the rockets will be launched are estimated to cost P1 million, Lim said yesterday.

“We’ll have to discuss the budget. We’ll get sponsors. I don’t think we’ll have any problem with that. But the City will spend also because the SRP is our project, we’re just riding on the activity,” the mayor said.

As in the previous elections, Osmeña said BOPK will hold a party for all their supporters who will help in the campaign, instead of a miting de avance.

“Ours is just a party and we can even combine it with that (SRP launch). BOPK can host a concert during the party… If we’re going to have a concert, that will be funded by us, including the sound and light system,” he said.

When sought for comment on the mayor’s plans, businessman Jonathan Guardo said he will just let the mayor celebrate as he wishes.

Guardo and Osmeña will face each other in the south district congressional race.

“Let them celebrate before May 10. We will have our celebration after May 10, our victory party,” Guardo said. (LCR)

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CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu City government will finally be launching the 300-hectare South Road Properties to coincide with the attempt of Pyroworks, one of the major producers of pyrotechnic shows in Cebu, to break the Guinness World Record for the largest fireworks display.

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said that the launching may be already long overdue, but surely it will be held before the May 10 elections.

Osmeña said that when Pyroworks asked the city’s help to organize the attempt to break the Guinness Record at the SRP where they are set to light 110,000 fireworks in less than a minute, he thought it would be the best opportunity to launch the SRP project even if it has been operating for a few years now.

The existing record of largest fireworks display consisted of 66,326 fireworks on December 31, 2006 in Madeira, Portugal.

He said the city will also break the longest barbecue record during the launching. The longest barbecue recorded measured 3,803.96 meters done in 2008 in Pangasinan.

The entry is found at page 113 of the 2010 book edition of the Guinness World Records.

Pyroworks and the city government are still finalizing on the sharing of expenses for the activity.

But Osmeña said that the city definitely has to spend for the attempt to break longest barbecue record because it will be an activity of the city in line with SRP launching.

With regard to the fireworks display where millions of pesos will be needed, Osmeña said they will look for sponsors to minimize expenses.

The SRP has 300 hectares of waterfront land where 240 hectares of which are reclaimed. The project commenced in the mid 1990s and was ready for occupancy in 2005.

The project’s cost reached over 12 billion Japanese Yen funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

“The SRP was designed for mixed land use and can accommodate manufacturing, commercial, tourism, IT and other service enterprises,” according to SRP primer. It is registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority as a Special Economic Zone.

The first company to invest in the SRP was Bigfoot Properties Inc. which built a film-making facility in a two-hectare property it leased from the city government for 25 years. The project cost reached about three billion US dollars.

In February last year, the city government has entered into a sale and joint venture with the Filinvest Land Inc. to develop a 50.6 hectare area of the SRP.

And just this year, after three years of negotiation, SM Prime holdings sealed the P2.7 billion deal to buy 30.4 hectare lot at the SRP where it planned to build a convention facility, a shopping mall, school, hospitals and a high rise residential condominiums for the next five years. —

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Fireworks display, barbecue fest for SRP launch in May 3/2

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By Fe Marie Dumaboc, ReporterTwo Guinness world records for the biggest fireworks display and the longest barbecue grill is the ambitious aim of Cebu City when the city government launches its 300-hectare reclamation project in May.

If this happens, it would be a perfect backdrop for the launch of the South Road Properties (SRP), said Mayor Tomas Osmeña.

He said pyrotechnics manufacturer Bryan Lim of Pyro Works sought permission from him to hold a fireworks display aimed at setting a world record.

About 110,000 fireworks will be set off in less than a minute, Osmeña said.

“And he wants to do it at the SRP. He asked for my support and I said wow, that’s a great opportunity to launch the SRP,” the mayor said.

Osmeña said city officials plan to hold the launching in May before the elections.

“All kinds of events are happening at the SRP, including breaking the record for having the longest barbecue… again. It sounds like fun, di ba? From here to there (from the starting point of the SRP up to the end of it.). That’s going to be longer.” he said.

“I don’t think there’s any problems getting sponsors. But the city will spend also because the SRP is our project. We are just riding on it (the fireworks event),” he added.

Instead of a campaign miting de avance, the mayor said the launch would be the administration party’s way of thanking their supporters.

A concert is also planned.

“So we’ll just treat them. Ever since the first election, our miting de avance is just a party. We can even combine it with that (fireworks display and longest barbecue)…Why not? That sounds like a lot of fun,” Osmeña said.