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).

Tier classification

Tier 1. George Terbovich is a founding merchant co-owner of the Crestwood Shops property — a distinction that goes beyond long tenancy and reflects the deepest possible commitment to a Kansas City retail community. A pre-2000 KC interior designer who owns both his store and a stake in the real estate it sits on meets the “pride + dedication to business owner’s roots” standard on the strongest editorial grounds. KC-native status is but the institutional depth makes this a clear Tier 1 regardless.

Menu / Selection

Not applicable — retail boutique. See product categories 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

**** Map-pin needed: ~315 E. 55th St., Kansas City, MO 64113 (Crestwood Shops). Exact suite address; confirm coordinates for map layer.

Footnotes

1. Crestwood Shops — “GEORGE a lifestyle store” listing — https://www.crestwoodshops.com/george-a-lifestyle-store — accessed 2026-06-30. 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, art, books, housewares); ~315 E. 55th St., KC MO. ↩ ↩² ↩³