How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timeline

VividSeats It seems like the death of the Tampa Bay Rays is finally upon us, with the City of St. Petersburg requesting the team formally withdraw from an agreed upon new stadium project.
How did we get here?
The efforts of Rays ownership to find a home field other than Tropicana Field goes back at least to 2008, when the team first proposed building on the site of Al Lopez Park (now the Rowdies home pitch). The section of DRaysBays articles chronicling these efforts, which are all grouped into