Blount Boats to pay $24,000 in fines
Blount Boats will pay a $24,000 penalty and spend at least $230,000 on a new “tent” building over its ways on the Warren River, to resolve federal claims that the boat-building company violated federal and state clean air regulations. Blount received town approval in January to build the 44-foot-tall tent structure over its ways; the [...]
Read More →Blount Boats gets Warren OK for large tent
A plan to build a 45-foot-tall tent on the Warren River waterfront has gotten town approval and now moves on to the state. But it likely won’t be the last building to spring up at Blount Boats. At its most recent meeting, the Warren Zoning Board unanimously approved a height variance and special use permit [...]
Read More →Planners give thumbs up to Blount Boats ‘tent’
A plan to build what amounts to a 44-foot tall tent on the Warren River shoreline took a step forward Monday night, when the Warren Planning Board signed off on the application submitted by Blount Boats. The boat-building outfit wants to build the large tent structure to help finish boats under construction at the thriving [...]
Read More →Warren boat builder gets town hearing Monday
Blount Boats’ expansion plans will get a long-awaited public review Monday night. The Warren Planning Board will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. to discuss Blount’s request to build a large retractable tent structure along the Warren River. The shipbuilder needs a host of variances to build the structure, which could be as tall [...]
Read More →Blount Boats review delayed after Warren quorum fails
It will be another three weeks before the town reviews a plan to expand the Blount Boats plant on Water Street. Members of the Warren Planning Board were expected to review the plan Monday night, but had to cancel a public hearing on the matter when only four of the board’s nine members showed up. [...]
Read More →Trombonists won’t let Warren shipbuilder’s legacy slide
The late Luther Blount of Warren was many things: shipbuilder, captain, entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, philanthropist, father. His legacy hasn’t been forgotten. When “the father of small ship cruising” died at age 90 in 2006, three daughters kept the Blount Boats shipyard and Blount Small Ship Adventures going. But another group of people are honoring a [...]
Read More →Blount Boats expansion plans change
It will be a few weeks before a plan to build several new buildings along Warren’s working waterfront gets a serious look. Officials from Blount Boats, which build large ferries and work boats on a sprawling tract of riverfront land on lower Water Street, were due to appear before the zoning board Wednesday night to [...]
Read More →Blount Boats looks to expand in Warren
Marcia Blount emerges from her office at the sprawling Blount Boats yard on Water Street, walks down a flight of metal stairs to the sunny lot below, and looks around at what her father, the late Luther Blount, built: “Dad left us a lot of work,” she said, smiling and looking past the corrugated metal [...]
Read More →Blount Boats looks to expand in Warren
The owners of Blount Boats are looking to expand their boat building-facilities along the southern Water Street waterfront. Officials from the Blount Realty Company and Water Street Dock Company were originally expected to appear before the zoning board Wednesday night, but the meeting has been put off until later in the year, Warren Building Inspector [...]
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