Court OKs housing development at site of Ohlone shellmound in Berkeley FacebookTwitterEmail A state appeals court has ruled that a proposed apartment and retail complex can be built on the Spenger’s restaurant parking lot. There is a dispute over whether the site overlaps an ancient shellmound burial site of the Ohlone tribe.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2018 A proposed housing and retail complex in West Berkeley can be built in a parking lot at the site of an ancient shellmound burial ground of the Ohlone tribe, a state appeals court says, because it would not destroy any structures in the underground site.