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CRANSTON – Newport Creamery will need to be out of its standalone restaurant in Garden City Center by December 2026, after the mall refused to renew the restaurant's lease.

"We've been trying to get more time on our lease for the last five years, and they kept on saying 'maybe,' 'we don't know,'" Newport Creamery spokeswoman and Jan Companies vice president Janice Matthews said. "We've gone through multiple mall management companies. And then we're hearing through the grapevine that they're planning to do something else with the site, so we called and they told us

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