GEORGE a lifestyle store

Cross-category lifestyle boutique at the Crestwood Shops in Kansas City’s Mission Hills corridor, owned by KC interior designer George Terbovich — a founding merchant co-owner of the Crestwood Shops property itself, with roots at the Shops predating 2000. Clothing, furniture, art, books, and housewares under one roof.

Description

GEORGE a lifestyle store is a boutique at Kansas City’s Crestwood Shops, owned by KC interior designer George Terbovich. The shop carries a deliberately varied mix — clothing, furniture, art, books, and housewares — reflecting Terbovich’s interior design eye and a conviction that meaningful retail spans categories rather than being siloed into one.¹

Terbovich’s relationship with the Crestwood Shops runs deeper than tenancy: he was part of the 2000 merchant group that purchased the Crestwood Shops property outright, making him both a retailer and a literal co-owner of the real estate.¹ This founding co-ownership makes GEORGE one of the most deeply rooted businesses in the entire Crestwood cluster — predating most of the shops now regarded as Crestwood institutions.

Ownership and history

George Terbovich is a Kansas City interior designer who has operated GEORGE at the Crestwood Shops for over two decades. In 2000, Terbovich was part of the merchant group that collectively purchased the Crestwood Shops property — a move that transformed the tenants from renters into co-owners of one of Kansas City’s most distinctive small-retail clusters.¹

As both the store’s owner and a co-owner of the Crestwood Shops real estate, Terbovich’s investment in the Mission Hills corridor is structural as well as entrepreneurial. GEORGE predates many of the other Crestwood institutions now in the Registry, including tea-market (2002), bacaro-primo, aixois-bistro, and underdog-wine-co (2014).

Menu / Selection

Not applicable — goods only, no food or drink. Re-checked 2026-08-14 against the store’s own Crestwood Shops merchant listing, which is the only working first-party channel GEORGE has: it describes an eclectic selection of clothing, furniture, books, jewelry, art, and housewares, gives retail hours of Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (plus Sundays in December), and carries no café, coffee bar, drinks, or food service of any kind.¹ The store has no independent website to check — the former georgelifestyle.com domain remains hijacked and is not a usable source (see Links). menu_status: na. Product categories are covered above.

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Links

• Website: None active — the former georgelifestyle.com domain now serves casino/affiliate spam (hijacked or lapsed and re-registered); do not link.
• Crestwood Shops listing: https://www.crestwoodshops.com/george-a-lifestyle-store

See also

• crestwood-shops
• tea-market
• underdog-wine-co
• homesong-market
• Registry

Sources

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Footnotes

1. Crestwood Shops — “GEORGE a lifestyle store” listing — accessed 2026-06-30, re-checked 2026-08-14. Asserts: George Terbovich (owner, KC interior designer); founding merchant co-owner of Crestwood Shops property (part of 2000 purchase group); eclectic lifestyle boutique — clothing, furniture, books, jewelry, art, housewares; 315 E. 55th St., Kansas City, MO 64113; hours Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m., open Sundays in December; no food, drink, or café offering. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴