later in 2004, the business was Purchased by Raymond Page who changed the night club into The Dome Theatre, where it held heavy and alternative rock performances by Slayer, Alice in Chains, DragonForce, The Deftones, The Offspring, and the controversial “Girls Gone Wild” Tour. It closed once again and was purchased at a tax foreclosure auction in 2007 by current owner and Niagara Falls native, John Hutchins, for $85,000. The run-down building underwent several renovations totaling $1. 8 million and received assistance through a grant from the NFC Development Corporation, an agency of the City of Niagara Falls' Office of Economic Development which gives grants and loans to help businesses, in late 2008. The grant, which amounted to $250,000, came from the city's share of slots revenue from the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel located downtown. Renovations included new sound and lighting systems, an outdoor electronic marquee above the theatre doors, a maple-wood bar, and new floor, and art -deco plaster repaired walls . The newly renovated Rapids Theatre held its grand public opening on December 5, 2009, with a performance by the 17-piece, Toronto-based band, Classic Albums Live, in which The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album was covered. Since then, several popular acts of all different musical genres and acts have made their way to the Rapids Theatre, including Stone Temple Pilots, The Shins, Eric Church, Our Lady Peace, The Deftones, The Used, The Headstones, Morrissey, Chevelle, Jason Michael Carroll, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Snoop Dogg, The Sheepdogs, City and Colour, Uncle Kracker, Fran Cosmo, The Band Perry, Blue October, Less Than Jake, Roscoe Dash, Xavier Rudd, David Cook, Josh Thompson, Primus, Five Finger Death Punch, Big Sugar, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mac Miller, Brantley Gilbert, The English Beat, Steel Panther, Easton Corbin, Brett Michaels, Dropkick Murphys, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Fall Out Boy, and the longest-running Broadway production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Other non-musical acts to make their way to the Rapids most recently include comedians Gallagher and Pauly Shore and the local Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. The theatre also specializes in wedding receptions, charity banquets, private parties, and corporate events. The venue is also popularly known as one of Western New York's haunted destinations. On October 19, 2011, the theatre was featured on an episode of SyFy's Ghost Hunters. The episode was appropriately titled "Stage Fright" and described the story of a young actress