Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said Tuesday that the city “definitely needs to do something” to honor the late singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who grew up in the Alabama Port City and is a 1964 graduate at McGill-Toolen High School.

“There are already conversations about whether there is a road or something we can build in his honor,” Stimpson said. “I think Mobile definitely needs to do something because of who he is and what he’s done.”

Buffett died on Friday after a battle with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer that is diagnosed in fewer than 3,000 people in the U.S. every year. He had been battling the cancer for the past four years, according the official obituary posted to his website.

Stimpson said his “one regret” is that Mobile was never able to secure a Margaritaville restaurant or something similar while Buffett was alive.

“The economics just didn’t work out,” Stimpson said. “There are a lot of ‘Parrotheads’ in Mobile and we need to claim him and recognize his life.”

Parrothead, a term first coined in the 1980s, refers to Buffett’s loyal fanbase.

Buffett was a Mississippi native, born in Pascagoula in 1946. But Mobile is where he grew up. His parents, Mary Loraine Peets Buffett and James Delaney Buffett Jr., were employees of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. Buffett’s grandfather, James Delaney Buffett, was a steamship captain and his father J.D. had traveled to India and Africa with the Army Corps of Engineers.

“For young Jimmy, the Gulf of Mexico was the doorway to a world of adventure where the characters he heard about in his grandfather’s stories were waiting to be discovered,” Buffett’s website says. “The siren call of exotic ports was in contrast to his days as a parochial school student and an altar boy, and it only took a guitar to take him off course from the life his parents had imagined for him.”

He recently made a donation of two aircraft to the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. The donations were revealed on Sunday. The Grumman Goose and Boeing Stearman, both on display in the memorial park’s Medal of Honor Aircraft Pavilion, arrived in 2022.