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Magic Johnson Park is a recreation area operated by 
The park also captures and filters runoff water from a storm drain under El Segundo Blvd., diverting it from
Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation
The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation is an agency of the County of Los Angeles which oversees its parks and recreational facilities. It was created in 1944. It operates and maintains over of parks, gardens, lakes, natural ga ...
in the Willowbrook neighborhood. It is named after Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their ...
star and activist Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
A $80 million renovation of the park was completed in 2020, adding improvements like a community events center, playgrounds for kids and 300 new trees. "There are new jogging paths, drought-tolerant native-plant gardens studded with sagebrush and sycamores, scenic overlooks” and a community center designed by Paul Murdoch Architects with interior murals
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by Carla Jay Harris.
The park also captures and filters runoff water from a storm drain under El Segundo Blvd., diverting it from Compton Creek
Compton Creek is a major tributary of the Los Angeles River in and surrounding Compton in Los Angeles County, California. The stream drains a watershed of . and is the last major tributary to enter the Los Angeles River before it reaches the P ...
, and releases it into wetlands and lakes at the park for further bioremediation. The park has two lakes that attract waterfowl like mallards, wigeons and Muscovy ducks. Formerly the site included an ExxonMobil Oil storage and distribution site that polluted the ground beneath it and the Ujima Village public housing project.
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