His philanthropy helped turn Warren’s waterfront into what it is today, but despite efforts over the years there are no public markers honoring the late Luther Blount, who died in 2006 at age 90. Now, things may be moving again.

Resident Andre Asselin asked members of the Warren Town Council last Tuesday to find room in this year’s budget to help honor Mr. Blount, a shipbuilder, oyster specialist and tinkerer who donated $1 million to the town to help preserve its working waterfront.

“There were plans to put up condos (on Water Street),” Mr. Asselin told the council. “His money was used to stop the condos, in effect, and gave us the waterfront that we presently have. Nothing has ever been done to thank him in any meaningful way for what he’s done for the town. That bothers me.”

“If nothing has been done in over 10 years about this, I think it’s about time that we do this. It’s not my place to tell (the council) what to do but I think it should be done.”

Warren Town Council president Joseph DePasquale said that he remembers efforts to publicly recognize Mr. Blount’s many contributions to Warren, both from outside groups and the town’s waterfront committee. They included a flagpole, bronze casts of his hands, and other gestures.

However, he said that “in true Warren fashion it was going to turn into something bigger and ended up going nowhere.”

“I think they may have innocently fallen through the cracks,” he said.

“I think (Mr. Asselin’s request) has merit. I plan on reaching out to the Blount family and find out what their intentions are, and we’ll do everything we can to make this request happen,” he said.