Can Mecca, Australasia’s top beauty store, go global?

When Australian retailer Mecca opens the doors to its new Melbourne flagship in May, it will lay claim to being one of the biggest bricks-and-mortar beauty stores in the world. Situated in a 150-year-old, terracotta-clad building that was once an old book arcade at 299 Bourke Street, it spans 4,000sq m over three levels, with a cavernous, 11m-high atrium and mezzanine floor. Most recently the premises of Australian retailer David Jones’s menswear department, the site has been restored…